Delivery confirmation?

I don't know of one unless you use one of the messaging apps on cydia. They may have this feature.

 

I does beggar belief that a feature I had on early Nokia`s is STILL absent from the iPhone.
Where the hell are text delivery reports...

 

I got the iPhone either on release day or a few days after here in the uk, and it was missing the most basic of features. You couldn't send to multiple recipients and you couldn't forward a message!!

 

I juat don't think the demand for this is high enough. I have been with the iPhone since the launch of the original, and on forums almost as long. This is literally the second times I have seen anyone ask. Don't get me wrong, I am not saying that your wishes are illegitimate, but Apple tries to implement features the majority wants (and often times not even those ROFL!)

 

It may be a "minority feature" in your opinion but that hasn`t stopped pretty much every other smartphone platform from adopting it.
My Android HTC would give me delivery reports.

I have a friend who works and sleeps odd hours, switching off his phone when he goes to sleep.
Send him a text, when I get the report I know he`s awake again. Useful.
Also stops people denying that they have been sent a message...

 

It's a legitimate request. I am not downplaying it. I am just stating that with Apple's track record it seems to take a LOT of complaining about a lack of a feature for them to implement it. I don't see this as a huge complaint by a large amount of people, thus my prediction is that we won't see it implemented any time soon, especially with their new iMessage feature.

 

I was under the impression the delivery report was a carrier implemented feature and not a phone specific. To my knowledge, I've never seen one prior to iMessage on AT&T/Cingular.

 

It's twofold. The carrier certainly has to support it, but so does the phone you are using, on a software level. I have not seen it on AT&T, though that doesn't mean it isn't available. It is simply not something I have cared about. I don't even have it turned on in iMessage. Personally I view it as a nuisance because I cannot claim I didn't read the message and I am expected to respond quickly if it is known that I did.