Chat / iOS

Current version: v4

Overview
- Getting started
- Send first message
- Migration guide
- User
- Overview
- - Retrieving and updating user information
  - Retrieve the online status of a user
  - Update user profile
  - Retrieve the latest information on participants
- - Managing user metadata
  - Manage user metadata
- Channel
- Overview
- - Creating a channel
  - Create a channel
- - Managing operators
  - Register and remove operators
- - Joining and leaving a channel
  - Enter and exit an open channel
  - Join and leave a group channel
- - Retrieving channels
  - Retrieve a list of channels
  - Retrieve a channel by URL
- - Inviting users to a group channel
  - Invite users as members
  - Accept or decline an invitation
- - Categorizing channels
  - Categorize channels by custom type
- - Managing channels
  - Delete a channel
  - Hide or archive a group channel
  - Refresh all data related to a group channel
- - Moderating a channel
  - Freeze and unfreeze a channel
- - Managing channel metadata
  - Manage channel metadata
- - Managing channel metacounters
  - Manage channel metacounters
- Message
- Overview
- - Receiving messages through event delegate
  - Receive messages in an open channel
  - Receive messages in a group channel
- - Using message threading
  - Create a message thread
  - List replies in a message thread
- - Retrieving a message
  - Retrieve a message
- - Searching messages in a group channel
  - Search messages by a keyword
- - Loading messages
  - Load previous messages
  - Load messages by timestamp or message ID
- - Listing changelogs
  - List changelogs of messages
- - Marking messages as read in a group channel
  - Mark messages as read
- - Marking messages as delivered in a group channel
  - Mark messages as delivered
- - Mentioning other users in a message
  - Mention other users in a message
- - Retrieving unread count in a group channel
  - Unread messages in a channel
  - Unread messages in all channels
  - Unread channels
  - Members who haven't received a message
  - Members who haven't read a message
- - Categorizing messages
  - Categorize messages by custom type
- - Adding extra data to a message
  - Add extra data to a message
- - Translating messages
  - Auto-translate messages
  - Translate messages on-demand
  - Translation engine
- Application
- Overview
- - Authenticating a user
  - Authentication
- - Understanding rate limits
  - Rate limits
- Event delegate
- Overview
- - Managing channel delegates
  - Add or remove a channel delegate
- - Managing connection delegates
  - Add or remove a connection delegate
- - Managing user event delegates
  - Add or remove a user event delegate
- Notifications
- Overview
- - Configuring preferences
  - Register push notification credentials
  - Notification preferences
  - Push notification content templates
  - Push notification tester
  - Push notification translation
- Report
- Overview
- - Creating a report
  - Report a message, user, or channel
- Local caching
- Overview
- - Using group channel collection
  - Group channel collection
- - Using message collection
  - Message collection
Deprecated
Error codes
Logger

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This is the new Docs for Chat SDK v4 for iOS. To see the previous Docs, click here.

Retrieve number of unread messages in a channel

By using unreadMessageCount, you can retrieve the total number of unread messages of a user in a group channel.

Swift

let unreadMessageCount = channel.unreadMessageCount

Sample app