Configure where you land in message feeds

When you go to a message feed in the Zulip web or desktop app, you'll generally land at your oldest unread message in that view. Searches and starred messages put you at the newest message instead.

In the mobile app, you can choose where message feeds will open:

• First unread message: Recommended if you like to clear your inbox of unread messages.
• First unread message in conversation views, newest message elsewhere: In Zulip, a conversation is a direct message thread (one-on-one or with a group), or a topic in a channel. This option works well if you have old unread messages, and don't want to navigate there in your Combined feed and channel feeds.
• Newest message: You may be used to this behavior from other chat applications. To avoid accidentally marking messages as read, consider setting Mark messages as read on scroll to Never when using this setting.

Related articles

• Marking messages as read
• Reading strategies