![]() The odds of someone not knowing they’ve got a message from you within a few minutes, or at most an hour, are pretty much zero. Whether they actually open the message or not, it’s safe to assume it’s been seen. Most people, myself included, look at their phones all the time. The point I’m making applies to them all.Īnd if the message is on their phone, they know about it. NOTE: I’m going to use “text messaging” for this article but you can sub in the words iMessage, WhatsApp message, Facebook message, Snap, or the name of any of a dozen other chat services that work in pretty much the same way. It’s pretty hard to talk on the phone if it isn’t happening in real time even a second or two delay due to bad signal makes the whole thing unusable. Part of the problem is, some people try to treat text messaging as if it’s synchronous (or at least, nearly so). It’s totally possible to respond to a text message days or weeks after it was sent and the conversation to flow perfectly. Phone calls, on the other hand, are synchronous. We don’t both need to be on our phones at the same time for it to work. I send you a note on my own time, you respond on your own time. RELATED: How to Keep People From Knowing You Read Their Message on FacebookĪlthough text messaging is a hell of a lot quicker, it’s basically the same as writing a letter. That way, no one can get mad when they see you read their message, but didn’t respond. These notifications are called read receipts, and for some reason, everyone wants to block them from showing up. I hope this helps get a better understanding of the situation.How could they be so rude as to read your message and not reply right away? The nerve of people these days, right? The solution seems to be to simply turn off the iMessaging but this will turn off the benefits of iMessaging between iPhone users. Its supposed to send you a read receipt when sending a picture message and iMessage is turned on. This is how the operating system on your phone was meant to behave. It would be great if the Apple operating system had the option to NOT receive read receipts when sending a picture message but it seems this is how it was conceiv!Įd (this may have also been different a few years ago on an older Apple iOS) Since Androids are set by default to send a report when requested, you are receiving delivery reports for picture messages sent to Androids (this may not be the case on older Androids with older operating systems but the newer ones like mine are set like this). iMessage is set by default to request delivery reports if one is available. ![]() The iPhone menu does not have the same options, you can only toggle on and off the Read receipts if YOU want to send a receipt for a message that you received and read, you cannot turn off the option to NOT receive delivery reports. Androids are set by default to Allow Delivery Reports when requested, this can be turned off though on individual devices. In and Android device there is the option to Request a Delivery report and to also Allow Delivery reports to be sent when requested. An iPhone can only receive these read receipts when iMessage is on. Every other Apple device I tested was also receiving a read receipt when they sent me a picture message and iMessage was ON, but not when it was off. I have done some more research and testing since we chatted earlier. ![]() I also do not have an Advanced Messaging feature on my phone. ![]() This cannot be a Samsung thing cause my Android we were testing with is and LG. Tech support got back to me again as I wondered if it had to do with old software on Samsung phones.
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