Chat rooms

Chat rooms are groups where many people talk together around a topic or a book. Rooms you've joined sit in the circle strip at the top of the Messages screen.

Finding and joining a room

1. In the room strip at the top of Messages, tap Show All or go to Discover chat rooms.
2. Use Search rooms or browse the suggested rooms.
3. Open a room and tap Join group. In approval rooms you'll see Send join request instead; you join once an admin approves.

• Open room: anyone can find and join it. If the admin allows it, you can read the chat before joining.
• Private room: only invited people can join.
• A room can have up to 100 members.

Book rooms

The Chat room button on a book's page opens that book's room; each book has a single room. If there isn't one yet, you can start it with Open a chat room. The book's author can choose who may open the room, or turn it off.

What you can do in a room

• Send text, photos and GIFs (text only if the admin turned photos off).
• Reply to messages, react, edit your own messages and translate messages.
• Small photos of the people who've seen the latest message appear under it; press and hold a message to see the full list.
• Tap a pinned message to jump to it, and use Search messages to find older ones.
• Use Hide this person to hide someone just for yourself.
• Turn off room alerts with Mute notifications, and Leave group whenever you like.

To create and manage a room, see creating and managing a room.