SCRUFF Chat Features

ACCESS CHAT FROM A PROFILE

1. Open the member’s profile details by tapping on the profile
2. Tap the Chat  icon

 

ACCESS CHAT FROM GRID VIEWS (thumbnail)

• Android  Tap and hold the profile thumbnail, then select View Messages in the menu that appears
• iOS  Lightly tap and hold the profile thumbnail

 

SEND A MESSAGE

1. Tap on the text icon  or the text entry field to expand the keyboard.
2. Compose your message.
3. Tap Send  when you are finished.

To take a new photo, tap the camera icon  in chat. Tap to switch between front and rear-facing cameras and  to adjust the flash.

Tap to take a photo. Tap < back to retake photo or to download it to your camera roll.

Swipe or tap Send photo to keep the photo in the chat or Send disappearing photo to let the recipient view it once. Tap the button with the recipient's profile thumbnail or placeholder to send the photo.

1. Tap the album icon  at the top of the chat screen.
2. Select your photo source from the top of the albums list:
   
   • ALL PHOTOS / CAMERA ROLL - Displays content stored on your device
     • TIP: Tap the grid icon  to open your device's camera roll / gallery app
   • RECENT - Recent photos you have sent in chat
     • Free members can send one of the last two recent photos
   • ALBUMS - Collection of albums you have created and stored on SCRUFF
3. Tap to select one (free) or up to 10 photos (Pro).
4. Tap Send  and then:
   • Send photo to keep the photo in the chat thread
   • Send disappearing photo to let the recipient view it once

 

To take a new video, tap the camera icon  in chat. Tap to switch between front and rear-facing cameras and to adjust the flash. 

Tap and hold the button to take a video up to 10 seconds. Tap < back to retake video, to download it to your camera roll or to mute audio.

Swipe or tap Send photo to keep the photo in the chat or Send disappearing photo to let the recipient view it once. Tap the button with the recipient's profile thumbnail or placeholder to send the photo.

1. Tap albums  at the top of the chat screen.
2. Select your photo source:
   
   • Camera Roll - Content that is stored on your device, videos will display a video icon  and video length, tap  to open your device's camera roll / gallery app
   • Recent - Recent videos you have sent in chat will appear with a video icon 
   • Albums - Your SCRUFF Albums will appear here, videos will be displayed with a video icon 
3. Tap to select the video you wish to send.
4. Tap Send  and then:
   • Send video to keep the video in the chat thread
   • Send disappearing video to let the recipient view it once

** Available to SCRUFF Pro members only

1. Open a chat message
2. Tap  in the chat bar
3. Search for your desired GIF
4. Tap on the GIF you wish to send

1. Open a chat message
2. Tap  in the chat bar
3. Confirm your current location -or- Select a future location to meet up
4. Tap the Send  button when you are ready to send your location

Start friendly conversations with lots of guys even faster with Frequent Phrases! SCRUFF learns and suggests the phrases you use the most, which you can send with just a tap.

SCRUFF will learn the phrases you use most (3 or more times) and add them to Frequent Phrases to send quickly with just a tap. Although Frequent Phrase are suggested based on phrases you type in chat, they are not the same as the auto-suggest feature from your keyboard, which only suggests single words.

To learn more about Frequent Phrases, tap HERE.

members can load their entire Message history with every member. Conversations that have been manually cleared will no longer be available in your history.

• Scroll to the top of the Messages grid, tap and pull down

TIP: NAVIGATE TO THE TOP OF A GRID

• Android Tap the SCRUFF icon in the upper left
• iOS Tap the top action bar where the time is located

Clears your message history with a member you've chatted with. Note that clearing your message bubbles within a chat will not delete the conversation thumbnail from the Messages grid.

 

Android

• CLEAR CONVERSATION (via chat)

1. While inside the conversation, tap the menu (3 dots) in the upper right corner.
2. Tap Clear Conversation in the menu that appears.
3. Confirm in the next menu.

• CLEAR CONVERSATION (via grid)

1. While viewing the read/unread messages grid, tap and hold the thumbnail of the chat thread you want to clear.
2. In the context menu that appears, select Clear messages.
3. Confirm in the next menu.

• CLEAR ALL CONVERSATIONS

1. To mark all unread messages as read:
   
   •  More Unread >.
   • Tap , then confirm.
2.  To permanently clear all read messages:
   
   • While viewing the Messages grid, tap More Recent >.
   • Tap the trash can, then confirm.

*Clearing all read conversations permanently clears all read messages in all chat threads from your profile. This action cannot be undone.

 

iOS

• CLEAR CONVERSATION (via chat)

1. While inside the conversation, tap the menu (3 dots) in the upper right corner.
2. Tap Clear Conversation in the menu that appears.
3. Confirm in the next menu that appears.

• CLEAR CONVERSATION (via grid)
1. While viewing the Messages grid, tap:
   • More Unread > (to mark all unread messages as read) -or-
   • More Recent > (to permanently* clear your read messages)
2. Tap  to enter 'Message Clear Mode' to select and clear multiple conversations.
3. Tap the thumbnail(s) of the chat thread(s) that you wish to clear.
4. Tap Clear to confirm; the profile thumbnail will turn grey indicating the operation was successful.
5. Repeat the steps above to continue clearing additional chat messages.

• CLEAR ALL CONVERSATIONS
  
  
  1. While viewing the Messages grid, tap:
     • More Unread > (to mark all unread messages as read) -or-
     • More Recent > (to permanently* clear your read messages)
  2. Tap  to enter 'Message Clear Mode'.
  3. To mark all messages as read, or to permanently clear all messages, tap .
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*Clearing all read conversations permanently clears all read messages in all chat threads from your profile. This action cannot be undone.

Save to scruff album 

1. Tap the thumbnail preview of the photo, gif or video to view it in theater mode (full-size).
2. Long-press on the photo to open the options menu.
3. Tap Save to Album to save to your SCRUFF albums.

Copy the contents of a text message

Long-press the chat bubble and select Copy from the context menu that appears.

 

Unsend messages

To unsend a message from within a conversation, please see the following steps:

Chat text

1. Tap the chat bubble and select Unsend from the context menu.
2. Select OK from the confirmation menu that appears.

Photo, video, location or GIFs 

1. Long-press the photo, video or GIF thumbnail and select Unsend from the context menu.
2. Select OK from the confirmation menu that appears.

Note

• A chat bubble will appear in place of the unsent message, indicating to the member that the message was unsent
• It is not possible to unsend the entire chat history with the member

 

Delivery Confirmation & Undelivered Messages

After sending a message, SCRUFF checks to see if it has reached the server. Once it reaches the server, a  will appear next to a message to confirm that it has been received and will be delivered to the recipient as soon as possible.

At this time, there is no indicator to show that the recipient has received or read your message.

If the delivery confirmation check mark does not appear within a short period of time, a  will appear and the message bubble will turn red to indicate that the message could not be delivered.

This means that the message was not able to reach our servers and is present ONLY on your device. You will also be notified of undelivered messages by a notice. Tapping  presents the option to resend the message.

There are three primary causes of undelivered messages:

• Your device does not have a viable WiFi or mobile data (3G / LTE / HSPA, etc.) connection
• There is an issue with the available route(s) between your WiFi network or mobile data provider and SCRUFF servers
• SCRUFF servers are experiencing a disruption, see Connection Errors for more details