Messages & connections
Start and manage a conversation
Send text, photos and voice messages, and understand requests and receipts.
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Send your first message
- Open Messages or use Message on a person's profile.
- Write your message. Use the attachment controls for a supported photo, audio file or voice recording.
- Review the recipient and attachment, then send once.
- Check the message status. If sending fails, read the error before retrying.
Requests, privacy and receipts
The recipient's message permissions, your allowance and account blocks determine whether a message can be delivered. An unfamiliar incoming conversation may show Accept and Block. Read receipts are withheld until the recipient accepts or replies. Online and typing indicators describe recent messaging activity; they are not a person's exact location or continuous availability.
- Upmanch currently provides private one-to-one conversations, not group chats or voice/video calls.
- Private messages are not end-to-end encrypted. Do not send passwords or financial credentials.
- A media permission is needed only for the related upload or recording action.
Message actions
Open a message's actions using its menu, long-press on mobile or right-click on web. Available actions can include reply, edit, react, forward and delete. You can unsend your own message within two minutes; server checks determine whether the action is still available. Deleting or unsending cannot erase a copy the other person already saved.