---
title: Pin a message
type: how-to
section: spaces
summary: Open the actions on a message and choose Pin message; pinned messages collect on the channel's Pins tab.
applies_to:
  clients: [web]
sources:
  - evolve-front-end/components/team-chat/pins/team-chat-pins-view.tsx
  - evolve-front-end/components/team-chat/pins/use-room-pins.ts
  - evolve-front-end/components/team-chat/shared/team-chat-message-action-descriptors.ts
  - evolve-front-end/app/i18n/locales/en/team-chat.json
verified:
  at: 2026-09-04
  env: code
  by: content-lane-spaces
ttl_days: 45
related: [spaces/channels-and-sub-channels, spaces/search-in-spaces]
aliases: [team-chat/pins]
---

1. Point at the message. Its actions appear above it.
2. Choose **Pin message**. On a phone, press and hold the message and choose it from the sheet.
3. Open **Pins** in the channel header to see everything pinned there.

**Pin message** appears only if you may manage the channel's pins. Spaces confirms with **Message pinned.**

## Unpin

Unpinning is not a message action. Open the **Pins** tab, find the row, and choose **Unpin**.

## The Pins tab

**Pins** lists the channel's pinned messages together with any decisions, actions, and sources recorded from them. Filters narrow the list to **Messages**, **Decisions**, **Actions**, or **Sources**. An empty tab reads **No messages are pinned in this conversation.**

**Pin message as...** records the message under one of those headings instead of pinning it plainly. Only a plain pin is stored on the server; the other three are notes on the tab, capped at eight and cleared when the page reloads. Use a plain pin for anything that has to last.

## Pinning a conversation instead

Pinning a message and pinning a conversation are different. The context menu on a channel or direct message row pins the conversation itself, which moves it into the **Pinned** section at the top of the navigation column. That changes only your own view.

## If it did not work

- If **Pin message** is absent, you do not manage pins in this channel, or the message has not finished sending.
- **Message was not pinned. Try again.** and **Message was not unpinned. Try again.** are service failures. Repeat the action.
- **Pinned messages could not be loaded.** means the tab could not read the list. Reopen the tab.