In SCRUFF Chat, you can quickly and easily exchange text, photos, videos, GIFs and location with other SCRUFF members.
For more details on how to use SCRUFF Chat Features & Functions, tap a feature below to expand and learn more:
ACCESS CHAT FROM A PROFILE
- Open the member’s profile details by tapping on the profile
- 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
- Tap on the text icon
or the text entry field to expand the keyboard.
- Compose your message.
- 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.
- Tap the album icon
at the top of the chat screen.
- 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
- TIP: Tap the grid icon
- RECENT - Recent photos you have sent in chat
- Free members can send one of the last two recent photos at a time
- ALBUMS - Collection of albums you have created and stored on SCRUFF
- Pro members can send photos from any album (Private, Recent, etc.)
- ALL PHOTOS / CAMERA ROLL - Displays content stored on your device
- Tap to select one (free) or up to 10 photos (Pro).
- 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.
- Tap albums
at the top of the chat screen.
- 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
- Camera Roll - Content that is stored on your device, videos will display a video icon
- Tap to select the video you wish to send.
- 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
- Open a chat message
- Tap
in the chat bar
- Search for your desired GIF
- Tap on the GIF you wish to send
- Open a chat message
- Tap
in the chat bar
- Confirm your current location -or- Select a future location to meet up
- 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)
- While inside the conversation, tap the menu (3 dots) in the upper right corner.
- Tap Clear Conversation in the menu that appears.
- Confirm in the next menu.
- CLEAR CONVERSATION (via grid)
- While viewing the read/unread messages grid, tap and hold the thumbnail of the chat thread you want to clear.
- In the context menu that appears, select Clear messages.
- Confirm in the next menu.
- CLEAR ALL CONVERSATIONS
- To mark all unread messages as read:
- More Unread >.
- Tap
, then confirm.
- 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)
- While inside the conversation, tap the menu (3 dots) in the upper right corner.
- Tap Clear Conversation in the menu that appears.
- Confirm in the next menu that appears.
- CLEAR CONVERSATION (via grid)
- While viewing the Messages grid, tap:
- More Unread > (to mark all unread messages as read) -or-
- More Recent > (to permanently* clear your read messages)
- Tap
to enter 'Message Clear Mode' to select and clear multiple conversations.
- Tap the thumbnail(s) of the chat thread(s) that you wish to clear.
- Tap Clear to confirm; the profile thumbnail will turn grey indicating the operation was successful.
- Repeat the steps above to continue clearing additional chat messages.
- CLEAR ALL CONVERSATIONS
- While viewing the Messages grid, tap:
- More Unread > (to mark all unread messages as read) -or-
- More Recent > (to permanently* clear your read messages)
- Tap
to enter 'Message Clear Mode'.
- To mark all messages as read, or to permanently clear all messages, tap
.
- While viewing the Messages grid, tap:
*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
- Tap the thumbnail preview of the photo, gif or video to view it in theater mode (full-size).
- Long-press on the photo to open the options menu.
- 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
Chat text
- Tap the chat bubble and select Unsend from the context menu.
- Select OK from the confirmation menu that appears.
Photo, video, location or GIFs
- Long-press the photo, video or GIF thumbnail and select Unsend from the context menu.
- 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
SCRUFF Enhancements
- View most recent 1,000 conversations in your Messages grid. Up from the free limit of the 16 most recent conversations with no unread messages
- Video messages. Send video messages
- View full message history. Up from the free limit of the 25 most recently sent or received text & media messages per conversation
- Un-deliver messages. You can un-deliver messages previously sent within a chat
- Turn off notifications while you sleep. Enable the Overnight setting to disable push notifications between the hours of 10PM and 8AM (local time)
- Send Private Album photos quickly in chat. Access your Private Album photos by tapping the Albums icon and selecting "Private Albums"-- send up to 10 photos at a time
- Send Recent photos quickly in chat. All sent photos will be cached and can be quickly accessed by tapping the Albums icon and selecting "Recent"-- send up to 10 photos at a time
- Save photos or videos to SCRUFF albums and device
- Mark all unread conversations as read
- Delete all conversations