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Beeper Desktop gives you flexible control over your unread message notifications—helping you stay focused and cut through the noise. You can mute individual chats or turn off notifications for entire chat networks.

This article breaks down how unread badges work.

Do you want to know more about how to customize your chats or Chat Networks notification setup?

Inbox - Tips and Tricks - All Apps Guide

Notifications - (Advanced Settings) - Desktop

 

How does the Badge Count work?

You can confirm the number of unread chats and how many unread messages just by glimpsing the Inbox section of the Beeper Desktop App.

By default, the Sidebar displays the Spaces for your connected Chat Networks, which you can use to filter messages by network. In this area, the badge number you might notice over a Chat Network icon represents the number of unread chats (not related to unread messages).

In the Inbox section, you can see all your chats, either from all Chat Networks if you're in the Inbox Space or from a particular Chat Network if you are in the network Space.

You will see all your chats chronologically, with the most recent one at the top. A badge will indicate the number of unread messages in each chat. 

Beeper Desktop will not prioritize unread chats over those that are already marked as read. Hence, we advise you to use the Archive feature.


Home screen and Dock badge count

The unread badge count on the app Dock icon will include the number of unread chats (not messages).

If you have three unread messages from Josh, one from Ana, two from Abdullah, and five from G, the Dock badge will show an unread badge for four chats.

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