Your iPhone May Be Sending Message Read Receipts Even If You Turned Them Off

[SirAnthonyHopkins]

Your comment is complete nonsense. What you mean to say is that it punctures your bubble of control and information and you can’t have that. People who require to know things that are none of their business make me suspicious and uncomfortable. The people I message can’t wait.

Jesus, it was a joke, put on your chill pants and have a sit down for a minute please.

 

[SirAnthonyHopkins]

SirAnthonyHopkins said:
People who have read receipts turned off make me suspicious and uncomfortable. What are you hiding?

Edited because I replied to the wrong perso And can’t figure out how to change it. Anyway, my reply to Sir Controlling:

People like you are controlling and think everyone has to jump to answer you. You are the exact reason we need this feature. Our life doesn’t revolve around your demands. We aren’t hiding anything we just won’t be controlled. We answer when we feel like it.

On every other forum I post on it would have been plain that my exaggerated response was for comic effect. But the responses I've had to this make me think maybe it was the right response; if people are this defensive about not having read receipts on maybe you do have something to hide??

 

[Maria43]

I did every possible “fix” that others said worked with not one working not even a temporary one, the ONLY “fix” I have found to work is to turn off IMessages. No more read receipts!

 

[Yukubousky]

People who have read receipts turned off make me suspicious and uncomfortable. What are you hiding?

People who feel that they deserve to know when someone else does something should seek mental help.

 

[wardroot806]

If you dnt want people to see your read receipts get new friends be real Dnt be fake

 

[BigaaE]

A better question is why do you want to see when I've read your message? The suspicious behavior is needing to know this. It makes you a stalker.

Not necessarily! I'm in a position where I'm trying to get in touch with someone, I have a number he had txt me from before but only once. So I'm not 100% sure it's his number. Nobody answers when I call nor do they return my txts. But I did see that whoever's number it is they show "read" on there. So they've seen them!

 

[BigaaE]

Does anyone really care if their message was read but the recipient isn’t replying quickly?

Only if it's important!

 

[BigaaE]

Yeah, 'family'...

I dropped out of the 'family' Facebook group, and you would have thought that I had killed half of them and fed them to the other half. OMF!!! I was harassed on a near daily basis on why I quit. One family member thought I had died (and didn't tell anyone) and another thought my 'overbearing wife' had pulled the plug (or locked me in the basement).

I finally quit FB, and people just accepted it. The group was so inane and pointless, but you can't deny family, no matter how hard you try. (Some found one of my email accounts and ruthlessly tried to keep me informed on 'family matters'. I blocked them)

But nothing is worse than the post I made earlier on the wife not getting the read receipts she was getting for some reason. I thought of turning that on, but I don't want others that I message to be anxiously waiting for the status to change, and harassing me because it's taken 'so long' for it to happen. I hated read receipts on corporate email, and they allowed people to turn it off, but I was pointedly informed that it was 'bad juju' to turn it off...

Hahaha your really worried about people getting impatient and txting back asking why you haven't responded? I feel it's worse when it shows 'read' and 3 days later they still haven't responded! I'm like turn that **** off or answer the ****ing question! 😂

 

[BigaaE]

Some replies need time for consideration - you may not know or be sure of how to reply right away. Also, longer text messages may have to be opened to be seen in their entirety (and ones that do appear in their entirety can be accidentally tapped on). Yes, one could always reply with "let me get back to you on that" but they may not be in a place where they can reply for safety reasons or because they get interrupted by a phone call or something.

That's a very good example. For people to ask "you can't take 2 seconds and respond"! What? Sure if your txt says something like "want tacos for dinner"! But if it's your wife asking why you spent $300 playing golf last weekend when you said you had to work", you're gonna need a little more than 2 seconds to respond! lol

 

[russell_314]

Not necessarily! I'm in a position where I'm trying to get in touch with someone, I have a number he had txt me from before but only once. So I'm not 100% sure it's his number. Nobody answers when I call nor do they return my txts. But I did see that whoever's number it is they show "read" on there. So they've seen them!

It makes the messaging process more personal, and this is part of the reason why iMessage is more popular than SMS messages. It’s not just cause the bubbles are blue.