# Issues marking messages as read on mobile app **URL:** \ **Category:** Bug\ **Created:** [January 21, 2020, 5:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/issues-marking-messages-as-read-on-mobile-app/139317 "2020-01-21T17:07:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![gummibear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@gummibear](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gummibear)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2020, 5:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/issues-marking-messages-as-read-on-mobile-app/139317/1 "2020-01-21T17:07:37Z")
What’s the right place to discuss the app? I have a hard time with marking messages as read ---
**Author:** ![pmusaraj](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pmusaraj/32/119489_2.png) [@pmusaraj](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pmusaraj)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2020, 5:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/issues-marking-messages-as-read-on-mobile-app/139317/2 "2020-01-21T17:12:11Z")
I moved this to a separate topic. Are you having issues marking private messages as read on the DiscourseHub app specifically? ---
**Author:** ![gummibear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@gummibear](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gummibear)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2020, 5:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/issues-marking-messages-as-read-on-mobile-app/139317/3 "2020-01-21T17:15:15Z")
It’s not about private messages. I see forums wirth many unread messages, I bruwse them, not even going to the details, and then would like to mark them as read because I’m not interested. I could not find out how to do that. Sometimes I am digging into the details, scroll to the bottom, use the back button and expected the thread to be marked as read and it wasn’t. ---
**Author:** ![gummibear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@gummibear](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gummibear)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2020, 5:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/issues-marking-messages-as-read-on-mobile-app/139317/4 "2020-01-21T17:17:37Z")
I am on iOS. Are there any gestures used in the app, like swiping to the left? ---
**Author:** ![gummibear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@gummibear](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gummibear)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2020, 5:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/issues-marking-messages-as-read-on-mobile-app/139317/5 "2020-01-21T17:22:06Z")
Huw I navigate it to the new messages and scroll to the bottom. There I have a button to ignore all the messages. But I do not want to ignore them. I just want to mark them as read. How can I do that? ![Bild](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/6/1/614b20b733e87936da6d0820576b267d3cda260b.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![pmusaraj](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pmusaraj/32/119489_2.png) [@pmusaraj](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pmusaraj)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2020, 5:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/issues-marking-messages-as-read-on-mobile-app/139317/6 "2020-01-21T17:24:51Z")
That’s probably a translation issue. In English, that button is called “Dismiss New” or “Dismiss Unread” (depending on your context). Dismissing is equivalent to Marking as read. So that’s the button to use. The iOS app doesn’t have any gestures to this effect, no. ---
**Author:** ![gummibear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@gummibear](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gummibear)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2020, 5:25pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/issues-marking-messages-as-read-on-mobile-app/139317/7 "2020-01-21T17:25:53Z")
How to mark those 38 messages read? ![Bild](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/3/1/3188516502c9b3d7a79308d83ded40f02b8095c6.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![gummibear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@gummibear](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gummibear)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2020, 5:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/issues-marking-messages-as-read-on-mobile-app/139317/8 "2020-01-21T17:28:40Z")
Is this button in the new filter the only place where I can mark messages as read, or is there any other place? ---
**Author:** ![pmusaraj](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pmusaraj/32/119489_2.png) [@pmusaraj](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pmusaraj)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2020, 6:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/issues-marking-messages-as-read-on-mobile-app/139317/9 "2020-01-21T18:49:43Z")
Yes the Dismiss button is the only place you can do what you’re trying to do. ---
**Author:** ![pmusaraj](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pmusaraj/32/119489_2.png) [@pmusaraj](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pmusaraj)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2020, 11:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/issues-marking-messages-as-read-on-mobile-app/139317/10 "2020-01-22T23:00:11Z")
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