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Hi Intercom Team,We are currently integrating the Intercom SDK into our application and have encountered the following three issues that are affecting the user experience:1. Partial Language Update via updateUser Issue: When calling Intercom.updateUser({ languageOverride: Language }) to switch the UI language, the change is inconsistent. Sometimes only a portion of the Intercom UI updates, while other elements remain in the previous language.     Workaround: A full and correct language switch only occurs after calling Intercom.logout() and re-initializing, which is not ideal for user experience. Expected Behavior: The entire Intercom UI should refresh to the target language immediately upon calling updateUser. 2. Android: Messages Not Appearing After Sending Issue: On Android devices, when a user sends a message, the message bubble occasionally fails to appear in the chat interface immediately. Details: The user has to exit the conversation screen and re-enter the chat to see the

We sent out an email campaign in ActiveCampaign using the same address we use for Intercom. When clients replied, Intercom’s reply‑to proxy kicked in and redirected all those responses back through Intercom.!--endfragment>!--startfragment>

We’re presenting Intercom articles with Intercom.presentContent(content) . Everything was working well in version 8.8.0 but after bumping to 9.x, the close button at the top article header is broken in iOS and doesn’t respond to taps. The only way to close the article is to drag the overlay down (which is something that might not be obvious for every user). It is working correctly on Android.

I am triggering an article in the Messenger, using the showArticle method. The article is pulled up within the Messenger - but aticle-to-article links from that original article open in a new window (outside of my app).  How do I keep the new articles showing in the Messenger so that the user isn’t directed out of the app?For additional clarity I am not linking to outside content, only other articles in Intercom.

Hi! I’ve figured out how to trigger the creation of an intercom ticket from slack, but wondering if anyone has any tips or tricks to share because it looks like there are a few ways to do this. Is there a way to trigger replies in thread when the rep in Intercom replies to the ticket?  I currently set it up (Option A) so that a slack workflow triggers an intercom back-office ticket as one of the steps of the slack workflow. However it seems like the other option (Option B) could be to set the Slack settings in Intercom so that the workflow bot triggers a conversation? Not sure which path is best or how to decide. Option A) Option B)

Hello there! I am having some issues to understand how to assign the Conversation Rating to an agent. Context: I am using Fivetran connector to load the data on our Data Warehouse and from conversation_history table I am grabbing the column conversation_rating_teammate_id to link the owner of the rating with the corresponding admin/agent. Issue: We want to attribute the rating of each conversation to an agent using the same logic Intercom is using in the UI where the last agent who respond get the credit but for some conversations the last message author ID from conversation_part_history is not the same as the conversation_rating_teammate_id. Can someone explain me how this attribution logic works?Thanks!

We have users worldwide and I have agents in India, UK and Canada.What are the best practices for working with voice channels from countries where we have no office?Example: We have no office in Mexico, it’s impossible to get a local number and have them call into the US or Canada line

Via Jira for Tickets, is it not possible to sync Intercom ticket status to Jira item status (Intercom → Jira)?I know you can do Jira → Intercom. I just assumed in the Intercom Workflow editor you’d be able to wire up the same going the other direction, but I’m only seeing 2 actions that can be performed in Jira? Create Issue and Create Comment? 

Hi team, We have an issue with Bluecore users as they are getting the popup opened every time, no matter they close it. This behavior was first reported on Sept 30th It seems to be affecting users that have “Tasks” on their help menu No matter they close it, it reopens everytime they navigate to another page in the site or open a click to a new page in the site. While this is not impacting functionality, it is becoming a frustrating customer experience.Can you please take a look?

I am using Intercom.presentMessageComposer(initialMessage) to show Intercom with a pre-filled message in my React Native app like this:await Intercom.presentMessageComposer(‘An initial message.’);I’m using this version: "@intercom/intercom-react-native": "^9.3.2"This launches the Intercom messenger on iOS with pre-filled message.On Android, this launches the Intercom messenger but there’s no pre-filled message. Also the message input is not visible on Android.Is this an expected behavior on Android or is it a bug?

I added some custom attributes like lead_id and lead_email.I tried to send those under custom_attributes or directly. Both failed. intercom.boot({ ...additionalSettings, .lead_id: visitorId, lead_email: email,}); intercom.boot({ ...additionalSettings, custom_attributes: {lead_id: visitorId, lead_email: email},});I expect to see those in contact.merged or contact.user.created or contact.user.updated Webhooks but could not.

We use Hubspot as our CRM and we have integrated it with Intercom in order to sync our customer data. In Hubspot it appears that the sync is on, but our customers are not being synced into Intercom as users. Any tips for getting this set up? Thanks!

Hi everyone,We’re using Fin with an escalation rule that hands the conversation off to a human when certain conditions are met.Right now, when escalation triggers, Fin sends the customer a fixed handoff message that repeats word-for-word across conversations. The phrasing doesn’t match our support tone of voice, and it feels robotic.Is there a way to control or customize the customer-facing text that Fin sends at the moment of escalation/handoff?  

Related to the Critical Vulnerabilities in Next.js and React (CVE-2025-55182), we have identified that our Help Center hosted by Intercom is affected. Please patch as stated in the article as soon as possible since this is an urgent matter!

Hello there! Has anyone here any suggestions for an app to integrate on top of Intercom to give our customers possibility to have anice list overview of their chat/conversation/ticket history, and where they can search in theit conversation history, etc.?

Hello,I have a data connector whose purpose is to find a custom object by its id. And it can return NULL if it finds nothing.I would like to branch a workflow depending on whether or not the data connector was successfull in finding the custom object, and it’s not very clear how I can achieve that.I tried to use the “branch” step with a condition saying that one of the (mandatory) fields of the custom object is “any value” or “is unknown” but that didn’t work. The branch step is behaving like the custom object is always there, even when my endpoint returned NULL. I think the data connector is creating an instance of the custom object in all scenarios.What could be the proper way to do that?

Businesses in Jalandhar are exploring how Intercom can improve customer communication and engagement. When combined with professional digital marketing in Jalandhar, these tools help deliver targeted campaigns, personalized messages, and better follow-ups. I’d love to hear from the community—how do you use Intercom to improve local marketing efforts? For teams focusing on digital marketing Jalandhar campaigns, which strategies have given the best results in terms of engagement and conversions?  

Hello, I see that there is a Slack Intercom integration available here: https://www.intercom.com/help/en/articles/11534476-connect-your-slack-channelThe issue that I see though that is different from the use case that I am targeting is that Intercom tickets are initially created from Slack and not the other way around. I am trying to make it so that if a conversation/ticket is started in Intercom, it is automatically pinged in Slack. As you converse through Slack, those messages are also sent back and forth through Intercom. So my initial entry point would be Intercom versus Slack. Is there a way to do this?

I have the Slack integration working, so all messages sent via the live chat widget on our webiste are going to a Slack channel. How can I set it up so replies in a Slack thread go back to the Intercom conversation, and to the live chat widget? I have tried builing a “Teammate sends any message” workflow, and also a “Teammate adds a note” workflow, but neither one worked. Any suggestions?

I'm trying to get the user ID in order to make additional API calls, but I can't get it other than by performing an additional API call to look up the user's email address, which seems like a rather roundabout way of doing it?

We are trying to use official @intercom/messenger-js-sdk with our react app.https://www.npmjs.com/package/@intercom/messenger-js-sdkWe are calling Intercom instance in our App component Intercom({ app_id: ..., });and then updating user info when user data is available using following functions:import { boot, shutdown, update } from "@intercom/messenger-js-sdk"; when there is no user data we are calling boot with only id,boot({    "app_id": "...",})and if there is user data, we are passing required properties to boot functionboot({    "app_id": "...",    "user_id": "...",    "name": "...",    "email": "...@......",    "created_at": ....,}) It seems that when calling with boot({ "app_id": "..."}), user data is not cleared and in chat we continue to receive messages as if user is still logged in.Once boot() is called with user data, can it be rebooted with no data (for example, in scenario if user is logged out from our app and we want new chat instance without user data)? Also, if t

Hi everyone,We’re currently using Tags as our main way of classifying conversations in Intercom (e.g. product area, issue type, billing, cancellations, etc.). It’s starting to feel a bit messy and hard to report on, so we’re considering moving to a small set of Conversation Attributes instead, and using Tags only for campaigns/one-offs and stuff like that.I’m looking for advice from teams who’ve actually done this: How did you decide which things should be Attributes vs Tags? Which Attributes do you find the most useful for reporting (e.g. issue type, product area, plan tier, outcome, churn reason)? Did you make any fields mandatory before closing a conversation? If so, how many before it became annoying for agents? How did you handle the transition period? Did you backfill old conversations or just start from a certain date? We’re also using Fin and I’d love any tips on that side: Are you using Fin to help set Attributes (directly or indirectly)? Do you let Fin apply Tags/inte

Android API 36 is ignoring the orientation configuration. The Android SDK is fixing the orientation as portrait. We have got the following warning on Google Play: From Android 16, Android will ignore resizability and orientation restrictions for large screen devices, such as foldables and tablets. This may lead to layout and usability issues for your users.We detected the following resizability and orientation restrictions in your app:<activity android:name="io.intercom.android.sdk.activities.IntercomCarouselActivity" android:screenOrientation="PORTRAIT" />To improve the user experience for your app, remove these restrictions and check that your app layouts work on various screen sizes and orientations by testing on Android 16 and below.Would it be possible to avoid orientation restrictions in the SDK?

I'm looking for best practices, specific triggers, and action ideas to bring back users who haven’t interacted with our product in a while. checkout Should I focus on email campaigns, in-app messages, or a mix of both? Any examples of successful re-engagement workflows would be greatly appreciated!"

Hi! We would like to send a short summer message as a chat bot message, on top, of the ordinary that we have today. how do i add that to our bot?