diff --git a/apps/ios/Shared/Model/SimpleXAPI.swift b/apps/ios/Shared/Model/SimpleXAPI.swift
index 032ed46c8b..c625a5a043 100644
--- a/apps/ios/Shared/Model/SimpleXAPI.swift
+++ b/apps/ios/Shared/Model/SimpleXAPI.swift
@@ -2294,7 +2294,6 @@ func processReceivedMsg(_ res: ChatEvent) async {
                case .memberSupport(nil) = m.secondaryIM?.groupScopeInfo {
                 await MainActor.run {
                     m.secondaryPendingInviteeChatOpened = false
-                    m.secondaryIM = nil
                 }
             }
         }
diff --git a/src/Simplex/Chat/Library/Subscriber.hs b/src/Simplex/Chat/Library/Subscriber.hs
index 9761c3841d..2c4946a07a 100644
--- a/src/Simplex/Chat/Library/Subscriber.hs
+++ b/src/Simplex/Chat/Library/Subscriber.hs
@@ -2121,10 +2121,11 @@ processAgentMessageConn vr user@User {userId} corrId agentConnId agentMessage =
         processUserAccepted = case acceptance of
           GAAccepted -> do
             membership' <- withStore' $ \db -> updateGroupMemberAccepted db user membership GSMemConnected role
+            -- create item in both scopes
             let gInfo' = gInfo {membership = membership'}
-                scopeInfo = Just $ GCSIMemberSupport {groupMember_ = Nothing}
-            (ci, cInfo) <- saveRcvChatItemNoParse user (CDGroupRcv gInfo' scopeInfo m) msg brokerTs (CIRcvGroupEvent RGEUserAccepted)
-            groupMsgToView cInfo ci
+            createInternalChatItem user (CDGroupRcv gInfo' Nothing m) (CIRcvGroupEvent RGEUserAccepted) Nothing
+            let scopeInfo = Just $ GCSIMemberSupport {groupMember_ = Nothing}
+            createInternalChatItem user (CDGroupRcv gInfo' scopeInfo m) (CIRcvGroupEvent RGEUserAccepted) Nothing
             toView $ CEvtUserJoinedGroup user gInfo' m
             let cd = CDGroupRcv gInfo' Nothing m
             createInternalChatItem user cd (CIRcvGroupE2EEInfo E2EInfo {pqEnabled = PQEncOff}) Nothing