diff --git a/Meshtastic/Views/Messages/ChannelMessageList.swift b/Meshtastic/Views/Messages/ChannelMessageList.swift
index 5102099f..1c1a1921 100644
--- a/Meshtastic/Views/Messages/ChannelMessageList.swift
+++ b/Meshtastic/Views/Messages/ChannelMessageList.swift
@@ -130,6 +130,9 @@ struct ChannelMessageList: View {
 			.defaultScrollAnchorTopAlignment()
 			.defaultScrollAnchorBottomSizeChanges()
 			.scrollDismissesKeyboard(.immediately)
+			.onFirstAppear {
+				debouncedScrollToBottom(scrollView: scrollView, lastMessageId: lastMessageId, delay: 0.1)
+			}
 			.onReceive(NotificationCenter.default.publisher(for: UIResponder.keyboardWillShowNotification)) { _ in
 				// Keyboard is about to appear: keyboard show animation hasn't quite started yet.
 				// Schedule an immediate scroll to the bottom message by its messageId, in order to force LazyVStack to render that cell if it isn't rendered already
diff --git a/Meshtastic/Views/Messages/UserMessageList.swift b/Meshtastic/Views/Messages/UserMessageList.swift
index 4e9c6881..09766c32 100644
--- a/Meshtastic/Views/Messages/UserMessageList.swift
+++ b/Meshtastic/Views/Messages/UserMessageList.swift
@@ -128,6 +128,9 @@ struct UserMessageList: View {
 				.defaultScrollAnchorTopAlignment()
 				.defaultScrollAnchorBottomSizeChanges()
 				.scrollDismissesKeyboard(.immediately)
+				.onFirstAppear {
+					debouncedScrollToBottom(scrollView: scrollView, lastMessageId: lastMessageId, delay: 0.1)
+				}
 				.onReceive(NotificationCenter.default.publisher(for: UIResponder.keyboardWillShowNotification)) { _ in
 					// Keyboard is about to appear: keyboard show animation hasn't quite started yet.
 					// Schedule an immediate scroll to the bottom message by its messageId, in order to force LazyVStack to render that cell if it isn't rendered already