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AI Step Delay between messages

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  • August 2, 2024
  • 10 replies
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Germán Rupérez

It would be nice (and probably not hard to do), that you can configure a delay time between AI Step responses, so the customer perceives it as a human

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Hninonline
  • Up-and-Comer
  • August 6, 2024

It is best thing to be in technology 


1337punk
  • Up-and-Comer
  • October 4, 2024

please do this one !


Raquel C
Manychat Team Member
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  • Manychat Community Manager
  • October 18, 2024
The following idea has been merged into this idea:

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Raquel C
Manychat Team Member
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  • Manychat Community Manager
  • October 18, 2024
The following idea has been merged into this idea:

All the votes have been transferred into this idea.

benjaminpang
  • Up-and-Comer
  • December 5, 2024

On top of that, if the user replies with multiple messages, this delay should allow ManyChat to process all messages in one prompt to give a sensible answer.


roven
  • Up-and-Comer
  • July 1, 2025

Need this. It’s way too fast at the moment Lol


whatever-tomato

so is it being worked on and should we expect it anytime soon? Maybe someone knows a workaround by splitting it to multiple AI steps?


dipo
  • Up-and-Comer
  • November 9, 2025

please fix this


cons
  • Up-and-Comer
  • January 20, 2026

This would honestly be one of the most valuable improvements you could make to AI automations.

Instant AI replies break immersion and make interactions feel obviously automated. A simple way to control or randomize response timing (even a basic delay before AI output) would massively improve the human feel and real-world usability of AI steps.

If there’s a recommended workaround or best practice for handling this today (even if it’s not native yet), it would be great to have it documented. A lot of users seem to be running into the same limitation.

Hope this is something that can be considered or addressed if not now or ASAP then at least soon .

 


archienorris
  • Up-and-Comer
  • January 21, 2026

Desperate for this feature! Would save so much headache having to use N8N & Make to automate the process in the backend. 

It would be awesome to be able to connect tools to the AI also, like google calendar, so it can automatically check for available time slots & offer those instead of someone having to click on the link to book a call.