Chats and Media
Use this guide for text messages, image sharing, album sharing, and local history behavior.
Send text messages
- Open a conversation.
- Type your message.
- Press Send.
Send image messages
- Use Attach image in the chat composer.
- Pick an image file.
- Wait for upload progress to complete.
Share albums
- Click Share album.
- Pick an album from the picker.
- Confirm share to the current conversation.
Open album media
- In a message that contains an album, click Open.
- Click outside the album viewer container to close.
Local history behavior
Open Grind stores local chat history for resilience.
- Local-only entries are labeled as from local history.
- Local history can be cleared per conversation from the chat header.
Failed sends
For messages that failed to send:
- Retry text messages from the failed item.
- Delete/unsend local failed entries directly from the message menu.