How do i mark all text messages as read on Mac OS?

I have a few old messages marked as unread in iMessage on MacOs. With the increase in spam messages, this is likely spam messages I didn't delete nor read.

Posted on Jul 29, 2022 8:53 AM

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Posted on Jul 29, 2022 8:55 AM

To my knowledge, the best workaround is to select a message, then use the "next conversation" hotkey Ctrl-Tab Aka ^-Tab. If you hold this down it will auto-scroll through conversations.


I was able to remove all the unread message flags this way, still it took a couple of minutes of holding the key down to scroll through about 2 years of old messages and clear some really old ones.

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Jul 29, 2022 8:55 AM in response to peeeetar

To my knowledge, the best workaround is to select a message, then use the "next conversation" hotkey Ctrl-Tab Aka ^-Tab. If you hold this down it will auto-scroll through conversations.


I was able to remove all the unread message flags this way, still it took a couple of minutes of holding the key down to scroll through about 2 years of old messages and clear some really old ones.

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