Messaging on mobile: new ways to collaborate and search

Overview

The mobile messaging experience has been enhanced to help you communicate faster, stay organized, and catch up on conversations more efficiently. These updates are designed to support everyday collaboration, whether you are coordinating with teammates, sharing important updates, looking for past messages, or saving quick notes for yourself.

With these new capabilities, you can manage conversations more flexibly and spend less time searching for information. AI-powered summaries also make it easier to understand long discussion threads without reading every message in full.

What's included

• Ad hoc group conversations for starting quick group discussions on the fly

• Message forwarding to easily share information from one chat to another

• Search within conversations to quickly find specific content in a message thread

• Self-messaging for personal notes, reminders, or saved information

• AI-powered conversation summaries to help you catch up on longer threads

Feature details

• Ad hoc group conversations

You can now create group conversations directly from mobile without needing a pre-existing group setup. This makes it easier to bring the right people together in the moment for fast collaboration.

Ad hoc groups are best for quick project discussions, urgent coordination, or temporary team conversations.

Example use cases:

• Starting a conversation with a few coworkers to coordinate an event

• Creating a temporary chat for issue resolution

• Bringing together stakeholders for a time-sensitive update

When the conversation is no longer needed, you can leave it or archive it to keep your inbox focused.

• Message forwarding

Forwarding allows you to share an existing message with another person or conversation. This reduces the need to copy and paste content manually and helps preserve the original message context.

You can forward important updates, instructions, or shared content to help keep conversations aligned. Forwarding is especially useful when information from one conversation needs to be shared with another team or individual.

• Search within conversations

Search makes it easier to locate information inside a conversation thread. Instead of scrolling through long message histories, you can search for keywords, topics, or specific details. This is especially helpful in active chats where important information may otherwise be difficult to find later.

Use search to:

• Find a shared update from earlier in the conversation

• Locate a specific term, topic, or phrase

• Review past discussion points without manually scanning the thread

Search results highlight matches inline, so you can jump straight to the message you need without losing your place.

• Message yourself

You can now send messages to yourself on mobile. This creates a convenient personal space for saving quick notes, reminders, links, or other information you want to come back to later.

Self-messaging is helpful for capturing ideas, saving follow-up tasks, or keeping useful information close at hand. Common ways to use it include:

• Saving reminders for later action

• Storing links or reference information

• Keeping personal notes in one easy-to-access place

Search works within the active conversation, helping you retrieve information quickly without leaving the thread.

• AI-powered conversation summaries

AI-powered summaries help you quickly understand long or active conversations. Instead of reading every message, you can review a concise summary of the discussion and catch up faster. This is particularly useful after time away, when joining an active thread, or when reviewing conversations with many replies.

AI summaries are intended to improve efficiency by surfacing the main points of a conversation in a shorter format. You should still review the full conversation when precise detail, nuance, or confirmation is important.

When to use these features

Benefits

• Faster collaboration: Start and manage conversations more easily from mobile

• Better information sharing: Forward messages without retyping or copying content

• Improved findability: Search within chats to locate important details quickly

• Personal productivity: Use self-messaging as a lightweight note-taking and reminder tool

• Quicker catch-up: Use AI summaries to understand lengthy conversations faster

Best practices

• Use group conversations for timely, focused collaboration

• Forward messages when sharing existing information is more efficient than rewriting it

• Use search before asking others to resend information already shared in a thread

• Use self-messaging to capture action items or useful links while on the go

• Use AI summaries for quick orientation, then review the full thread for important details if needed

FAQs

Q: What is an ad hoc group conversation?

Ans: An ad hoc group conversation is a group chat created in the moment, without needing a pre-established messaging group.

Q: Can I message myself in Native Messaging?

Ans: Yes. Self-messaging is useful for saving personal reminders, notes, links, and other information you want to revisit later.

Q: How does message forwarding work?

Ans: Forwarding lets you send an existing message from one conversation to another, making it easier to share information quickly.

Q: How does search within a conversation help?

Ans: Search helps you quickly find keywords, messages, or discussion points in a thread without scrolling through the entire conversation history.

Q: How are AI-powered conversation summaries useful?

Ans: They help you quickly understand the main points of a long conversation, which is useful when catching up after being away or joining an active thread.