diff --git a/lib/reducers/message-reducer.js b/lib/reducers/message-reducer.js
--- a/lib/reducers/message-reducer.js
+++ b/lib/reducers/message-reducer.js
@@ -1873,7 +1873,7 @@
       rawMessageInfos,
       updateInfos,
       outboundP2PMessages,
-      messageIDWithoutAutoRetry,
+      composableMessageID,
     } = action.payload;
     if (rawMessageInfos.length === 0 && updateInfos.length === 0) {
       return { messageStoreOperations: [], messageStore };
@@ -1894,22 +1894,19 @@
       );
 
     if (
-      !messageIDWithoutAutoRetry ||
+      !composableMessageID ||
       !outboundP2PMessages ||
       outboundP2PMessages.length === 0
     ) {
       return { messageStoreOperations, messageStore: newMessageStore };
     }
-
-    const newMessageID: string = messageIDWithoutAutoRetry;
-
     // Messages to other peers that can be retried from UI,
     // we need to track statuses of each one.
     const outboundP2PMessageIDs = outboundP2PMessages.map(msg => msg.messageID);
     const localOperation: ReplaceMessageStoreLocalMessageInfoOperation = {
       type: 'replace_local_message_info',
       payload: {
-        id: newMessageID,
+        id: composableMessageID,
         localMessageInfo: {
           sendFailed: false,
           outboundP2PMessageIDs,
diff --git a/lib/shared/dm-ops/process-dm-ops.js b/lib/shared/dm-ops/process-dm-ops.js
--- a/lib/shared/dm-ops/process-dm-ops.js
+++ b/lib/shared/dm-ops/process-dm-ops.js
@@ -102,13 +102,13 @@
         dispatchMetadata = dmOperationSpecification.metadata;
       }
 
-      let messageIDWithoutAutoRetry: ?string = null;
+      let composableMessageID: ?string = null;
       if (
         dmOperationSpecification.type ===
           dmOperationSpecificationTypes.OUTBOUND &&
         !dmOpSpecs[dmOp.type].supportsAutoRetry
       ) {
-        messageIDWithoutAutoRetry = dmOp.messageID;
+        composableMessageID = dmOp.messageID;
       }
 
       if (
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@
               rawMessageInfos: [],
               updateInfos: [],
               outboundP2PMessages,
-              messageIDWithoutAutoRetry,
+              composableMessageID,
               notificationsCreationData,
             },
           },
@@ -285,7 +285,7 @@
             rawMessageInfos,
             updateInfos,
             outboundP2PMessages,
-            messageIDWithoutAutoRetry,
+            composableMessageID,
             notificationsCreationData,
           },
         },
diff --git a/lib/types/dm-ops.js b/lib/types/dm-ops.js
--- a/lib/types/dm-ops.js
+++ b/lib/types/dm-ops.js
@@ -414,7 +414,7 @@
   // For messages that could be retried from UI, we need to bind DM `messageID`
   // with `outboundP2PMessages` to keep track of whether all P2P messages
   // were queued on Tunnelbroker.
-  +messageIDWithoutAutoRetry: ?string,
+  +composableMessageID: ?string,
   +notificationsCreationData: ?NotificationsCreationData,
 };