# Notification about chat messages in the header

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/notification-about-chat-messages-in-the-header/386167
**Category:** UX
**Tags:** mobile, chat, completed
**Created:** [October 20, 2025, 11:53am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notification-about-chat-messages-in-the-header/386167 "2025-10-20T11:53:22Z")
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### Author: ![Moin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/moin/32/554653_2.png) [@Moin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Moin)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2025, 11:53am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notification-about-chat-messages-in-the-header/386167/1 "2025-10-20T11:53:22Z")

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There used to be a chat icon in the header indicating that you have unread chat messages. This was very helpful to notice activity in other chats while you were looking at a specific chat. For example, to notice that person B replied while I am chatting with user A.

| before | after |
| --- | --- |
| ![_20251020_114649](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/f/e/7/fe7980a0ee57b804fece00f4792b50a0b34940dc.jpeg) | ![_20251020_134844](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/9/c/7/9c7a1e0c61fb20d6b86288b38456aea593502d68.jpeg) |

That icon was removed: [FIX: hides redundant chat icon on mobile chat routes by yuriyaran · Pull Request #35015 · discourse/discourse · GitHub](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/35015)  
And while I understand that you don’t need a button which takes you to chat while you are at chat, I do really miss the notification count that was lost when the icon was removed from the header.

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