iMessage - messages being ‘read’ without opening them?

[londonmidland]

I’ve updated both my iPad and iPhone to the latest version - iOS 14.2 and it seems whenever someone sends me a message, it’ll automatically read the message without me going into the app? This happens completely randomly.

Sometimes I won’t even get a notification and it makes it look like I’ve left the person on ‘read’. It’s only when I open the app I realise that a message was sent to me, several minutes ago.

Has anyone else had this issue?

 

[Phil77354]

Shouldn't happen - are you sure that the message is not actually being read on one of your other devices? Since messages will synch between iPhone, iPad, iMac, etc., any of those devices could cause the message to be read and that status will be reflected consistently on all devices.

 

[Apple_Robert]

Never had that problem before. I think Phil’s hypothesis is spot on.

 

[Christopher Kim]

Agreed - as someone who has iMessages linked with my iPhone, iPad, Mac and my Apple Watch, I get notifications on any one of those devices. It's actually made me question whether I should finally change my read receipts to no longer being shown on iMessage.

I always enjoyed leaving it on as a "sign of openness" (as ridiculous as it sounds), but there've been times I'll quickly view it on my Apple Watch but not have time to respond in the moment and forget to respond, and thus given the recipient that unintended "read it but never responded"...

 

[Lkrojo]

I’ve updated both my iPad and iPhone to the latest version - iOS 14.2 and it seems whenever someone sends me a message, it’ll automatically read the message without me going into the app? This happens completely randomly.

Sometimes I won’t even get a notification and it makes it look like I’ve left the person on ‘read’. It’s only when I open the app I realise that a message was sent to me, several minutes ago.

Has anyone else had this issue?

I’ve been having The same problem I contacted Apple and all they told me what to do was to reset my phone but that didn’t work.

 

[Hatton920]

There is an issue with iMessage which is affecting people

Quirky Message Notifications

I am running 14.2 and have been experiencing problems with getting Messages Notifications. Sometimes I get notifications of new messages, sometimes I don’t. I have tried turning on/off notifications and also powering down/on my phone and doing a reboot to no avail. Has anyone else experienced...

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[vvapple]

having that problem as well! I frequently receive messages without getting a notification - not even having the app opened in the background. It gets marked as read.

 

[pixelcoder]

I know this is an old thread, but I actually started to have this issue on iOS 15.6.1.
In the Apple Discussions forum, I found this thread, but unfortunately their solution does not work for me: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8504108

Is anyone else experiencing this with a current iOS version in 2022?

 

[kellyann7147]

I know this is an old thread, but I actually started to have this issue on iOS 15.6.1.
In the Apple Discussions forum, I found this thread, but unfortunately their solution does not work for me: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8504108

Is anyone else experiencing this with a current iOS version in 2022?

Did you find a new solution to this? I just started experiencing the same problem and nothing seems to be working.

 

[iObama]

Ugh, this is happening to me on a single thread.

I woke up one day and my partner’s text thread was in recently deleted, and now since I restored it, they’re coming through as automatically read.

No odd devices listed on my Apple ID. I don’t understand 😭

 

[OlesyaPetrova]

I’ve updated both my iPad and iPhone to the latest version - iOS 14.2 and it seems whenever someone sends me a message, it’ll automatically read the message without me going into the app? This happens completely randomly.

Sometimes I won’t even get a notification and it makes it look like I’ve left the person on ‘read’. It’s only when I open the app I realise that a message was sent to me, several minutes ago.

Has anyone else had this issue?

Were you able to solve the problem?

 

[Smjj18]

Clearly this issue hasn’t been fixed in any iOS updates, I’m just here to say I’m having this same issue in iOS 16.something and still after updating to iOS 17. Hope someone finds a fix!!