iPhone 17 Pro Max When reading SMS tests (green messages) they are not marked as read on Ipad/AW.

[richard371]

Any time I read an SMS green message on my iPhone they do not get marked as read on my iPad or Apple watch. This is only SMS messages. Imessage works fine. Is this normal?

 

[FreakinEurekan]

Guesses in order of likelihood:

1. Update everything
2. Verify Message Forwarding enabled on iPhone
3. Optional, but it's how I did it - set up Messages in iCloud

 

[richard371]

Did all 3. No luck.

 

[eyoungren]

If your carrier, or the carrier of the recipient, does not have RCS (Rich Communication Service) then you will not see this. It's a standard SMS which does not have read receipts.

Or, you might not have turned on RCS in your Messages settings.

 

[rambo47]

The recipient(s) may not have "Send Read Receipts" enabled.

 

[VineRider]

This fixed the problem for me:

Thank you @BriceApp !!! And thank you jefftb78 on the original post if you are around here. This appears to have worked! After I took the steps in his post, I have now had a credit card charge and a 2FA text message come in, both handled correctly! YAY!

To continue the tradition, I updated his instructions for today's devices/settings:

1. Under Apps/Messages/Send & Receive on iPhone, unselect your phone number as a place to send and receive iMessages. You should only have your Apple ID/email address selected.

2. Turn off Apps/Messages/iMessage slider for 5 - 10 seconds. Just long enough for us to be sure it registered everywhere.

3. Turn iMessage back on. At this point you should only have your email address as the sender/recipient of iMessages.

4. Wait until you get the pop-up notification that (paraphrased) “your Apple ID is now being used for iMessage on a new iPhone”.

5. After you get the notification that your your Apple ID is now being used for iMessage on a new iPhone, you can change the iMessage settings to allow your phone number to send/receive iMessages again. Just don’t unselect the email address and only leave the phone number.

Just had to use this method and it does indeed work. I can also add that after step 5 I did remove my iCloud email address and just left only my phone number and it works fine. (I've had issues with iMessage where my iCloud email and phone number both turned on were messing up group texts so I turned off the email address long ago and only use my phone number for iMessage).

So, I added my email address in step 1, then followed steps 2-4. Then on step 5 I added my phone number, waited about 30 seconds and then removed the iCloud email address leaving only my phone number selected. All SMS/RCS message are now synching well across my devices.

As an aside, the problem started when i updated my ESIM on my phone. So, after thinking about this it stands to reason that turning off my phone number and re-adding it to iMessage would solve the issue.


https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...d-status.2470463/?post=34393580#post-34393580

 

[richard371]

Did the trick. Thanks.