How to Turn On/Off iMessage Read Receipts – Guide
In iOS 9.3.5 and earlier, if you didn’t want one or two of your contacts to know whether or not you read their messages, you had to disable the function and lose read receipts to people you knew better. In any case, this is no longer the case. You can choose which contacts have read receipts turned on or off on your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch, as long as you’re running iOS 10 or higher. Let’s get started because it’s a very easy procedure.
Disabling (or enabling) read receipts for individual contacts
If you want to send a message and have the recipient not know if you’ve read it, you can enable “send read receipts” in the Messages app. This will let them know whether or not you’ve read their message. ..
When you have read receipts turned off for everyone, but you want that person to be able to see that you read their iMessages, just turn on the “Send read receipts” option for that individual contact. On the other hand, when you have read receipts turned on for everyone, you can turn off the “Read Receipts” option for that individual contact. ..
The Read Receipt feature is only available in iMessage-enabled conversations, so if you’re not using iMessage, you won’t be able to use this feature. Regular SMS conversations (the ones with green bubbles) don’t support Read Receipt functionality to begin with, so the other party will never know if you’ve read their messages or not. Group messages also do not have read receipt functionality, no matter if they are SMS or iMessages, so keep that in mind. ..
iOS won’t remember your individual contact settings if you go to the main Messages settings and turn “Send read receipts” on and off (or off and on) for everyone. So you’ll have to redo them later.
Final note
How to Turn On/Off iMessage Read Receipts in Mac If you are using Apple’s messaging service, then you may want to turn on/off receipt reading. This is a handy feature that allows you to see what messages have been read and how much time has passed since they were sent. This can be a helpful way to keep track of your communication schedule.
