Bluesky adds group chats but DMs still can't send images

techJun 11, 2026741,863

Bluesky rolled out group chats, letting users create multi-person conversations inside the app. The update also reintroduced image carousels for posts, but direct messages and chat windows still cannot attach, upload, or copy-paste image files. That restriction prevents sharing screenshots or photos privately and limits the new chats' usefulness for common messaging tasks.

Bluesky

@bsky.app

Along with group chats, we've rolled out a new way to share your profile and invite friends to find you on Bluesky. Check your profile — you'll see a new share button. You can use this to create a personalized QR code other people can scan to more easily find (and hopefully follow) you.

6492h ago

Bluesky145

If you're curious about group chats and haven't seen the announcement, check it out here: bsky.app/profile/bsky...

UncannyKyle20

This will be great for all my friends on Blue Sky! Me and everyone I know on Blue Sky:

multiburst16

Please add "search for a string, but only within the people I follow" finally... This is a simple but very useful feature. And overdue.

Jim7

I don’t use BS on iOS. I’m too old w/ fat fingers. What would be nice is an edit button for those fat fingers…

🖤🩶ƬΛЯ🤍💜5

I'm curious when we'll be getting media support for private messaging. Would be awesome to send photos and video to friends.

JJDiane 🐝5

I won’t be doing that, thank you.

Lewinston (Some Sorta Artist)4

This isn't an opinion that goes one way or another on this new feature but... Bsky users are certainly a curmudgeonly bunch aren't we? 😂

John Simpson3

Didn't ask for either of these features either.

Franck3

This release seems to assume I actually have friends ir know anyone IRL I'd want to bring here... 🤔

Cindy McCrackan Bluesky Blogger/Dual Citizen/Monotropic Autist3

(I have no need to turn myself into a QR code but thanks for the offer!)

Dats fire but when u gonna get rid of the bsky.social in the username??

Kiefer Pseudonym2

Printing this out and taping it to every outdoor restaurant table

The Backlist Book 🇨🇦 🍁2

Personally, I won't use either of these. QR codes become unstable if the security is not regularly updated. prone to hacking. and group chats, really? did anybody actually ask for that? this isn't MSN messenger.

Jerry Chen

@jcsalterego.bsky.social

wow... bluesky is in fact monetizing group chats, and it's not pretty

2682h ago

Comfortably Numb9

Bluesky finally found a steady revenue model.

Onedimental, let me get uuuuuuuuuuuuuh6

Spirit Halloween moved into my group chat when people stopped responding.

Joseph3

This is what happens when private equity takes over the group chat.

Eric

@esb.lol

Three back-to-back weeks of releases: Standard Site, 10 photos, and Group Chats + Invites. Plus we announced our work on communities. BLUESKY SUMMER OF SHIPPING BAYBEEEE 🫡

881h ago

Eric23

I am v tired lol

Kuba Suder 🇵🇱🇺🇦4

Ok, so now only e~~~ <gets hit in the head by an atpotato 🥔>

Xan López2

I just now realized maybe you want to get all this out before the world cup starts? Or is it just a coincidence. It would make sense!

Mowwy!

@mollyesbian.gayass.io

still no images also the bluesky dm experience is still so miserable that the only thing bluesky dms are good at is to send someone your discord username so they add you on a more competent messaging app

543h ago

famous supporter of the trans wrongs movement4

kinda sad that discord has to be used in relation to the term "more competent"

Mal

@hollowverses.bsky.social

Bluesky group chats are great because now I can ignore several people simultaneously instead of one at a time

382h ago

Mx. Fee - FREE LINK

@mxfee.bsky.social

Bluesky is no longer showing the ALT badge on images in quoted posts 🫩 Can they please fix this shit?

2523h ago

patrick

@partnardy.bsky.social

Sorry boss yeah I’m kinda dragging ass today. I was up all night adding various bluesky users to chats called “loser chat,” “The Dumbfuck Area,” “You Are In Here Because You Are A Peace Of Shit,” “ass holes,” and then leaving the group.

351h ago

wargen

@funeralpig.bsky.social

me: you guys should really get off twitter and come to bluesky, not right now though it's down, no they don't have group chats but they are coming, no the group chats won't have gifs or images, no you can't have a locked account, nope no turning off reposts, alright see you on bluesky

33Yesterday

ｻꮻ☈ᙢꂦИѦʆЄȎ

@mrpurplephoenyx.blacksky.app

Adding the ability to send images in the DMs is right there! I’m just saying...

273h ago

TCRF Informalities

@tcrfinformal.bsky.social

bluesky team if you can hear me please make it so you can attach images in DMs. i've received SO MANY submissions confused about the inability to do that over the past year and a half that this account has been active PLEAAAASEEEEEEEEEEE

21Just now

@jjdotbiz.bsky.social

Bluesky has group chats? Wow, awesome. I missed all the Twitter group chats I was in. Yeah, we had so much fun in those, the Twitter group chats I had been invited into and then was an active member of. Some of my favorite memories, actually, were in those groups, which I was in, and also part of ha

282h ago