diff --git a/apps/ios/Shared/Model/SimpleXAPI.swift b/apps/ios/Shared/Model/SimpleXAPI.swift
index ed40b1eb2..bcab112b6 100644
--- a/apps/ios/Shared/Model/SimpleXAPI.swift
+++ b/apps/ios/Shared/Model/SimpleXAPI.swift
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ func apiCreateActiveUser(_ p: Profile) throws -> User {
 }
 
 func apiStartChat() throws -> Bool {
-    let r = chatSendCmdSync(.startChat)
+    let r = chatSendCmdSync(.startChat(subscribe: true))
     switch r {
     case .chatStarted: return true
     case .chatRunning: return false
diff --git a/apps/ios/SimpleX NSE/NotificationService.swift b/apps/ios/SimpleX NSE/NotificationService.swift
index 6c1d1a6c7..769c0754b 100644
--- a/apps/ios/SimpleX NSE/NotificationService.swift	
+++ b/apps/ios/SimpleX NSE/NotificationService.swift	
@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ func apiGetActiveUser() -> User? {
 }
 
 func apiStartChat() throws {
-    let r = sendSimpleXCmd(.startChat)
+    let r = sendSimpleXCmd(.startChat(subscribe: false))
     switch r {
     case .chatStarted: return
     case .chatRunning: return
diff --git a/apps/ios/SimpleXChat/APITypes.swift b/apps/ios/SimpleXChat/APITypes.swift
index 999f0531f..42a012b4b 100644
--- a/apps/ios/SimpleXChat/APITypes.swift
+++ b/apps/ios/SimpleXChat/APITypes.swift
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ let jsonEncoder = getJSONEncoder()
 public enum ChatCommand {
     case showActiveUser
     case createActiveUser(profile: Profile)
-    case startChat
+    case startChat(subscribe: Bool)
     case apiStopChat
     case apiSetAppPhase(appPhase: AgentPhase)
     case setFilesFolder(filesFolder: String)
@@ -60,9 +60,9 @@ public enum ChatCommand {
             switch self {
             case .showActiveUser: return "/u"
             case let .createActiveUser(profile): return "/u \(profile.displayName) \(profile.fullName)"
-            case .startChat: return "/_start"
+            case let .startChat(subscribe): return "/_start subscribe=\(subscribe ? "on" : "off")"
             case .apiStopChat: return "/_stop"
-            case let .apiSetAppPhase(appPhase): return "/_app phase \(appPhase)"
+            case let .apiSetAppPhase(appPhase): return "/_app phase \(appPhase.rawValue)"
             case let .setFilesFolder(filesFolder): return "/_files_folder \(filesFolder)"
             case let .apiExportArchive(cfg): return "/_db export \(encodeJSON(cfg))"
             case let .apiImportArchive(cfg): return "/_db import \(encodeJSON(cfg))"
@@ -367,7 +367,7 @@ struct ComposedMessage: Encodable {
     var msgContent: MsgContent
 }
 
-public enum AgentPhase: String, Codable {
+public enum AgentPhase: String, Decodable {
     case active = "ACTIVE"
     case paused = "PAUSED"
     case suspended = "SUSPENDED"
diff --git a/cabal.project b/cabal.project
index 30df5f67b..96e57fc74 100644
--- a/cabal.project
+++ b/cabal.project
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ constraints: zip +disable-bzip2 +disable-zstd
 source-repository-package
     type: git
     location: https://github.com/simplex-chat/simplexmq.git
-    tag: 70e7c71762abf7fea364d587da55ae3b7bac9b32
+    tag: c2f1dabcd0a2b8f7959b6946623c9620e036a103
 
 source-repository-package
     type: git
diff --git a/scripts/nix/sha256map.nix b/scripts/nix/sha256map.nix
index 4a23c6801..b1470a1b9 100644
--- a/scripts/nix/sha256map.nix
+++ b/scripts/nix/sha256map.nix
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 {
-  "https://github.com/simplex-chat/simplexmq.git"."70e7c71762abf7fea364d587da55ae3b7bac9b32" = "1mkzjhhkks5qfvf0rfni6ankg11b02y529ac387d53phv4qb82ck";
+  "https://github.com/simplex-chat/simplexmq.git"."c2f1dabcd0a2b8f7959b6946623c9620e036a103" = "1sa0b1hl8vcr43w2zqiab2lnssdbl0jpj5gd9n5mh59b5ynvlmdr";
   "https://github.com/simplex-chat/aeson.git"."3eb66f9a68f103b5f1489382aad89f5712a64db7" = "0kilkx59fl6c3qy3kjczqvm8c3f4n3p0bdk9biyflf51ljnzp4yp";
   "https://github.com/simplex-chat/haskell-terminal.git"."f708b00009b54890172068f168bf98508ffcd495" = "0zmq7lmfsk8m340g47g5963yba7i88n4afa6z93sg9px5jv1mijj";
   "https://github.com/zw3rk/android-support.git"."3c3a5ab0b8b137a072c98d3d0937cbdc96918ddb" = "1r6jyxbim3dsvrmakqfyxbd6ms6miaghpbwyl0sr6dzwpgaprz97";
diff --git a/src/Simplex/Chat/View.hs b/src/Simplex/Chat/View.hs
index 090fe4fcf..a0ed279e8 100644
--- a/src/Simplex/Chat/View.hs
+++ b/src/Simplex/Chat/View.hs
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ responseToView testView = \case
   CRChatStarted -> ["chat started"]
   CRChatRunning -> ["chat is running"]
   CRChatStopped -> ["chat stopped"]
-  CRAppPhase _ -> []
+  CRAppPhase p -> ["app phase " <> sShow p]
   CRApiChats chats -> if testView then testViewChats chats else [plain . bshow $ J.encode chats]
   CRApiChat chat -> if testView then testViewChat chat else [plain . bshow $ J.encode chat]
   CRApiParsedMarkdown ft -> [plain . bshow $ J.encode ft]
diff --git a/stack.yaml b/stack.yaml
index f9b23f972..7fdb5f799 100644
--- a/stack.yaml
+++ b/stack.yaml
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ extra-deps:
   # - simplexmq-1.0.0@sha256:34b2004728ae396e3ae449cd090ba7410781e2b3cefc59259915f4ca5daa9ea8,8561
   # - ../simplexmq
   - github: simplex-chat/simplexmq
-    commit: 70e7c71762abf7fea364d587da55ae3b7bac9b32
+    commit: c2f1dabcd0a2b8f7959b6946623c9620e036a103
   # - terminal-0.2.0.0@sha256:de6770ecaae3197c66ac1f0db5a80cf5a5b1d3b64a66a05b50f442de5ad39570,2977
   - github: simplex-chat/aeson
     commit: 3eb66f9a68f103b5f1489382aad89f5712a64db7