Slack Mobile Cannot Sort Channels by Last Accessed Within Categories
Slack's mobile app lacks a channel sort option available on desktop — sorting by last accessed within channel categories. This forces mobile users to manually scroll through ordered channel lists rather than quickly finding their most recently active conversations. The feature gap makes Slack mobile less efficient than desktop for multi-channel users.
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