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Chat: Messages, Reactions, and more!

Understanding Element's Chat Feature

Updated over 7 months ago

Welcome to messaging with Element—where every chat is end-to-end encrypted and powered by blockchain technology! Your conversations are secure, private, and completely yours. Whether you’re sending texts, sharing photos, or making PeerPay transfers, everything happens on-chain, ensuring maximum privacy and transparency. Dive into a messaging experience that’s as fun as it is secure, and explore all the unique features Element has to offer!

Start a Chat - One or Multiple People

  1. Create a new chat but selecting the compose icon (📝) from the top right of the Chat page

  2. From there you can select as many users as you would like (up to 30) and start a new group.

  3. You can send a variety of content in group chats, including:

    1. Text messages

    2. Pictures (Video support coming soon)

    3. PeerPay transactions and more!

Reactions

Make conversations more engaging with message reactions!

  • To react to a message, long-press it and select your favorite reaction from the menu.

  • You can react to messages from friends and even your own messages.

Additional options in this menu include:

  • Reply: Quickly respond to a specific message.

  • Copy: Copy the message content to your clipboard.

  • Report: Flag messages for review if necessary.

How to Delete Chats

Element gives you the ability to delete chats for both individual and group conversations:

  1. From Chat, long-press the chat you want to delete.

  2. Tap Confirm Destroy to permanently delete the chat.

  3. Note: You must be the owner of a group to delete it. DMs can be wiped by either party.

Note: Deleting a group chat will disband the group entirely, and all members will lose access to it.

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