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Side conversation initiating message not returned in conversation API - only replies are accessible

  • January 21, 2026
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When retrieving a conversation via the REST API  GET /conversations/{id}, the initial message that starts a side conversation is not included in the response. Only subsequent replies appear as part_type: "side_conversation_reply" or part_type: "side_conversation_started" as a conversation_part under the  conversation_parts section.

Observed behavior: The originating message (e.g., "Hi team, please answer clients query below...") sent by an admin to start the side conversation is completely missing. This message doesn’t appears neither in the api response nor in the main conversation thread in the intercom website, but when we click View side conversation in the main conversation thread in intercom, we can view all the side conversations opened in a separate dialog box.

We want to ingest all side conversations related to a conversationId, Is there any endpoint provided by intercom to ingest them? or any other possible way?