You don’t have to wait to get back to your desk to reply to a user or visitor. The Intercom Conversations for iOS and Intercom Conversations for Android mobile apps allow you to quickly reply to conversations on the move.
You can easily add notes, tag and assign conversations, apply macros and view your customer’s profile pages.
Conversations assigned to you are found in the 'Me' box and the 'Unassigned' box lets you view all open conversations.
Get notified of new messages
If you’re regularly traveling between meetings but still need to keep an eye on your inbox, you should set up mobile push notifications. This will help ensure you don’t miss any new important messages.
Reply to questions quickly and efficiently
You can quickly resolve your customers' queries while on the move by using macros, help articles, images, and GIFs right from the composer.
When using macros in the Intercom conversations app, actions will not be applied, but the message content will still be included. 👌
Quickly assign, snooze and close conversations
If you don’t have time to send a detailed answer to a customer there and then, you can quickly assign a conversation to a teammate, snooze it for later, or mark it as priority. For example, if a customer needs to get a bug fixed, you can assign the message to a support engineer. This will ensure your customer gets the help they need, right when they need it. Once they're sorted out, you can close the conversation right from the app.
Add notes so you can respond later
You can add an internal note to any conversation so you can remind yourself or a teammate about a key detail. You can even @mention a teammate to notify them. Just be sure to reply to your customer to manage their expectations and let them know when they should expect a response.
The Intercom Conversations app is currently in maintenance mode, meaning that our Product Team are not building new features and are only looking at widespread severe issues affecting the app.
Available features
This table lists all the features available in the Help Desk on web and indicates if the same thing can be done in the Intercom Conversations mobile app (the capabilities are the same across both the iOS and Android versions). In some situations the feature operates slightly differently between web and the mobile app, which will be described in the notes column.
Feature | Available | Notes |
Create new conversation via in-app, email or SMS | ✅ |
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Reply to existing conversation | ✅ |
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Add internal note to conversation | ✅ |
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Reassign conversation | ✅ |
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Reply to existing ticket | ✅ |
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Create new ticket | ❌ |
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Convert conversation to a ticket | ❌ |
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Add tracker ticket to conversation | ❌ |
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Send article | ✅ | Can send Article but no article suggestions |
Send gif | ✅ |
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Send macros | ✅ |
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Edit macros | ❌ |
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Send (upload) an image | ✅ |
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Schedule a meeting | ❌ |
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Attach a file | ❌ |
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Snooze a conversation | ✅ | Snooze is same as in web, except the options to 'Snooze until Monday' or '...for a month' are not available/listed. |
Order by waiting longest | ✅ |
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Mention another admin | ✅ |
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View your mentions | ✅ | No read/unread filter or ability to sort by mentions |
View teammate + team inboxes | ✅ |
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Create or edit assignment rules | ❌ |
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View Inbox Reports | ❌ |
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Send to Zendesk | ❌ |
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Send to Github | ❌ |
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Delete conversation part | ✅ |
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Change notification preferences | ✅ | Only supports mobile notification settings |
Change permissions | ❌ |
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Tag a conversation | ✅ | Tags can be created from within the mobile app (appropriate Admin profile permissions are required) but Tags cannot be edited or deleted |
Tag a user | ✅ |
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View user profiles | ✅ |
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View user conversation history | ✅ | Only Conversations are shown, not messages |
Search conversations | ✅ |
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Toggle away mode + reassignment | ✅ | Can toggle this setting for the logged-in Admin profile only. Teammates settings cannot be changed |
Change assignment preferences when replying to conversations | ❌ |
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View admin profiles | ❌ |
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Edit admin profiles | ✅ |
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Edit teams | ❌ |
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Download videos sent by an end-user | ❌ |
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Log in with SAML SSO | ✅ | More details on logging into the Conversations mobile app using SAML SSO here. |
Fin Copliot | ❌ |
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The Intercom Conversations app does not support sharing apps in conversations.
Set up your notifications so you never miss a conversation with a customer again.
Trouble logging into the Intercom Conversations app?
If you're unable to log into the Intercom Conversations app on iOS or Android, try resetting your password here: https://app.intercom.com/admins/sign_in (you may need to sign out of Intercom to see this page) 👇
Then try logging in to the app again with your Email and new Password.
Requesting Features
The Intercom Conversations App is currently in ‘maintenance mode’ which means the team are planning to resolve only severe widespread issues rather than build new features into the app. You can upvote, add comments and subscribe to any updates on the Product Wishlist here.
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