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Intercom Messenger Pop up Notifications to only appear in one tab instead of all open tabs

Related products:Messenger
  • June 24, 2024
  • 7 replies
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Jessica Quinn

Currently, pop up notifications that come through the messenger (such as responses/ message notifications) come through in all open tabs and require the user to close the same notification from the messenger in every open tab manually.

Some more ideal options:

  • All pop up messenger notifications would only show in the tab/ page where you asked started the chat from if still open (for example, if you start a chat asking about workflows while on a workflow page, you would only get pop up response notifications there instead of another open tab where you are in the help desk) or
  • Pop up messenger notifications would only show from the last tab/ page you were active on (for example, if you have the help desk, messenger settings, and help desk open in different tabs and last had activity or made changes in the messenger settings, that’s the tab you would get the pop up notifications and nowhere else) or
  • Pop up messenger notifications would only show from the most recently opened tab/ page (i.e. if you have 3 tabs open, you would only receive the pop up notifications in the last one you opened)

This would also really help if you have multiple ongoing conversations with Intercom support for example so that you would only get the pop up notifications on the page of the feature you are being assisted with instead of in every tab/ on every page you have open (so that you can keep the responses/ conversations organized by tab with the feature open instead of sifting through the messages tab of the messenger or getting all of the notifications everywhere)

7 replies

Jennifer K
Intercom Team
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  • Intercom Team
  • June 25, 2024

Hi @Jessica Quinn 

Jennifer here from Intercom


I will add this to the list of feature requests for our Product Team 🤞


Jennifer K
Intercom Team
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  • Intercom Team
  • June 25, 2024
NewDiscussion ongoing

Aleksei O
Super User ✨
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  • Super User
  • August 13, 2024

I would also appreciate more customisation around this for Outbound messages: Intercom is implemented in several of our products, and it would be great to limit some of them from showing the outbound messages (for example, if Outbound messages block UI elements).


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It is not uncommon for our customers to have 30-50 windows open with intercom nested in them. It’s a nightmare for some of them when they chat in to us, and get 50 popups. Maybe give us something where just the active window gets popped up?


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Hi. It is me again. I don’t know how often this is looked at , but I have customers threatening to churn because of this now. We have to be able to get this feature request done. Please. I don’t want to lose intercom. But this is such a huge deal for so much of my customer base. it was the number one complaint when people talked about support, by an absolute mile. 


Aleksei O
Super User ✨
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  • Super User
  • April 20, 2026

Gotta second on this on here. Would be a great QoL improvement


  • New Participant
  • August 4, 2026

I would also like to highlight this issue and ask if there is any progress made on this. I feel it’s quite common to have multiple Intercom tabs open at the same time, but can’t imagine the intention was to expect the user to open each tab to clear Messenger notifications.