Slack Rolls Out ‘Mark as Read’ Option in Notifications for Android App

Slack — the cloud-based group communication platform — is rolling out a brand new characteristic which makes checking notifications simpler. Customers will now discover a new “Mark as Learn” possibility when receiving a notification from Slack. Because the title suggests, this characteristic will mark the message as learn from the notification window itself, eliminating the necessity to manually open the Slack utility and verify unread messages.

‘Mark as Learn’ Possibility on Slack

First spotted by Android Authority, the choice to mark messages as learn by way of notifications has been launched on Slack for Android. Whereas you are able to do so by means of a number of key combos on the desktop, there was no approach to take this fast motion on the cell app, till now. To mark a message as learn, you normally should navigate to the channel and faucet on the ‘Mark as Learn’ possibility.

Nevertheless, the characteristic makes this simpler by offering a brand new ‘Mark as Learn’ possibility within the telephone’s notification window itself. It’s stated to seem alongside the prevailing Reply possibility within the Slack for Android app, thus permitting you to both reply to the message, or just mark it as learn.

This characteristic is presently solely accessible for Slack for Android, and Devices 360 employees members have been in a position to confirm its presence. Nevertheless, not all members have been in a position to see the brand new characteristic. It’s anticipated to be a part of a phased rollout and thus, might take a while to succeed in all Slack customers.

This builds upon the current addition of 25 new synthetic intelligence (AI) apps to the Slack market earlier this month. A few of these apps are Asana, Adobe Categorical, Glean, Perplexity, Jasper, and Wiz. By introducing these apps, it goals to enhance the productiveness of pros as they might not have to change between apps to finish duties, as per the corporate.

From Asana and Wiz to Adobe Categorical and Perplexity, the brand new apps deal with productiveness, content material technology and evaluation, gross sales and advertising and marketing, and human useful resource (HR) and IT features.