Having an option to change between ascending chronological order (oldest at top, newest at bottom) vs descending/reverse chronological order (newest at top, oldest at bottom) from either the settings page, directly from the grouped email, or both would be a massive improvement.

In case anyone doesn't get *why* this is important: it reduces the chance of users getting locked out of accounts that are tied to protonmail. To give a concrete example:

Earlier today, I got temporarily locked out of my github account because I wasn't paying attention and thought I was using the most recent verification code when in fact it was displaying an email from a previous session that I had forgotten to delete. This is just a hobbyist account and I was just replying to a comment so I could afford to wait. Now imagine if it were something more urgent or more important like logging into bank or credit card account or trying to login to pay an overdue bill or something (where people are already not too likely to be paying much attention to things like email dates)... getting locked out of an account in that kind of circumstance would be much more serious and likely result in upsetting someone enough that they might even leave protonmail...

For myself, I had to disable the grouping setting entirely to avoid repeats of this problem (All Settings > Messages and composing > Messages > conversation grouping toggle). But this has the side effect of making my inbox display a lot messier.

This was important enough for me to actually create an account here just to post... so I was pretty disappointed to see this suggestion was created just shy of SEVEN YEARS ago with no action or even official commitment to it so far

Sorting is a very basic, essential feature that should have existed before threaded view was implemented. That we still don't have this *7 years later* is pretty remarkable, and screams that the Proton dev team either does not understand or does not care about UI/UX.

Please add it :)

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Please add this feature.

Thank you!

100% agreed, please give us an option to choose most recent to be on top or bottom

Settings → Appearance → Under "Other" → "Conversation grouping"

I hope that for Conversation grouping, there be an option for displaying emails in either chronological or reverse-chronological order. Now all emails are shown in chronological order (newest at the bottom).

Thank you for your time and kind attention.

I agree - it makes a lot more sense to have the most recent message at the top of the conversation rather than at the bottom.
Some like it one way, some the other so an option to swtich between them would be a great addition to the new UI.

There is a choice to sort messages in folders by oldest first or newest first, but there doesn't seem to be choice for how messages in a conversation are displayed.

I agree this should be the default option for conversation view sorting. Hope the Proton mail dev team looks at this soon. At least give an option for sorting so the user can choose.

Hard to believe we are still waiting for this. Having the latest conversation on top is the default for any email service out there. It just makes so much more sense. I really hope the ProtonTeam is working on this.

Please add an option to sort the messages in the conversations pane so that the newest is at the top.

It doesn't make sense to allow us to sort the inbox with newest to the top but insist on putting the newest message to the bottom when you choose a conversation.

and also to have the conversion shown in the inbox accroding to the latest email in the conversation.

I too am used to seeing newest replies on top, oldest replies on the bottom, the same chronological order I use for my Inbox sorting.

I can't seem (or see how) to change this when viewing threaded emails AKA Conversation Grouping.

This is nearly three years old, any possibility of having this added?

I wuold like to have an option in " appearence > conversation grouping " from settings page that enabe most recent received email to be on top of the scroll - others messages should follow scrolling down to the older one

Xav's css works well in chrome, less so in firefox

Yes, please implement this asap. Also conversation grouping on mobile apps please!

I was looking for a way to do this, and a bit of CSS is enough.
Go to Settings > Appearance, and in the field "Custom Theme" add this :

/* Reverse messages sorting of conversations */
#pm_thread {
display: flex;
flex-direction: column-reverse;
}

I second this request

I would be great to have it.
Currently I have conversation with > 10 messages and it gets bigger and bigger. Every time I want to see update I have to scroll to bottom to see most recent mail.