how can you tell if a text message was read?
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When you text someone with Read Receipts turned on, you'll notice the word "Read" beneath your message and the time it was opened. To turn on Read Receipts in the iMessage app, click Settings then scroll down and tap Messages. Enable Send Read Receipts. These steps work with Macs and iPads as well.
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Green Background Sometimes you can also send or receive green text messages to an iOS device. This happens when iMessage is turned off on one of the devices. You can check if iMessage is on or off your iPhone by going to your iPhone Settings (gear icon) and then to Messages.
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When the bubble is blue, the message is send as an iMessage. If it turn green, it is send as a regular SMS. The iMessages have a build in delivery report and is will tell you tings like 'delivered' or 'read' when the message gets delivered/read.
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['Open Settings.', 'Go to Messages (the green icon with a white text bubble inside it).', 'Turn on the Send Read Receipts toggle switch.', "Others now will see when you've read their iMessages."]
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Unfortunately there is no read receipt feature, although it is on their dev backlog according to this Tweet thread. There isn't much you can do outside of asking if they saw it. Some other possibilities: Look at their screen to see if their Slack app is showing the unread message notification.
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["One checkmark: This means that the message is still sending. When you send your message, this icon will appear right away and should soon turn to 'delivered'.", 'Two checkmarks: This indicates that the message is delivered. ... ', 'Two purple checkmarks: This means that the message is seen.']
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No. A green text message means the message was sent using SMS instead of the iMessage data service. This typically mean you did not have data at the tine your sent the message.
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Check the "Read" heading. Anyone who is able to read your message has your number in their contacts, so you should see the name of the contact whom you know has your phone number here. If you see the name of the person whom you wanted to check here, they have your phone number.
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If the message is green, it is a text message. ... If it doesn't say "Delivered" or "Read" below the message it means the message has not yet been delivered. This could be due to the person to whom you are sending the message being offline, or maybe they have their iPhone off or on Do Not Disturb.
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As anyone familiar with the app knows, when you send a message, your text appears with a small 1 next to it, indicating that the person hasn't yet read the message. When they see it, the 1 disappears.
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If you've been blocked, text messages will send as a blue box and underneath you'll see the word 'delivered'. If that word never changes to 'read' then it's possible you've either been blocked or ignored… but there's also a chance they've seen the message but not clicked on the thread to mark it as read and reply.
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This one's pretty easy. You can simply open the app, head to the Settings page, go to accounts, privacy, and tap on Turn of Receipts. That's it. This will however, will not let you see if the other person has read your message or not.
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For any message that you send, you'll be able to see a message info screen, displaying the details of when your message was delivered, read, or played by the recipient. To see the message info screen: Open an individual or group chat. Swipe the message from right to left.
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You should see a 'Read' label below the sent message bubble. It first shows 'delivered' and changes to ' read' when recipient reads your text. This is available only if recipient has the ' send read receipt' option ON. Settings - Messages - Send read receipts.
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If the person you're sending the message to has the Read Receipt feature enabled, "Delivered" will change to "Read" once it's been read. If you're sending SMS messages (green), you will only receive an indicator if delivery fails.
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Similar to the iOS device, Android also comes with read receipts option. In terms of method, it is same as iMessage as sender needs to have same texting app as the recipient whose 'read receipts' is enabled on their phone already. ... Step 2: Go to Settings -> Text Messages.
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If they open your message; the word “Seen” will appear beneath the message. If you're in a conversation with multiple people, then an eye icon along with the Instagram name of the person who has seen your message appears. If you don't see the “Seen” text or the eye icon, the recipient may have turned read receipts off.