Raise your hand if you’ve been here: You’ve just received a text, but you don’t have the time (or energy) to respond just yet. You plan to leave it unread…until a slip of the finger opens the message ...

Read receipts are handy – they let you know when someone you've messaged has read your DM. Whether or not they reply right away, knowing that the message has been seen can be enormously helpful. Of ...

After months of speculation about the feature being released, Meta-owned social media platform Instagram will now officially let its users turn off read receipts. Unlike WhatsApp, Instagram hasn’t ...

Direct Messages or DMs are a popular feature on Instagram that allows you to chat with friends, share photos and videos and much more. Instagram is the main messaging app for many people. However, it ...

Whether you're messaging for work or for social networking, everyone wants to know if and when a message has been received and read. LinkedIn makes knowing this relatively easy – the professional ...

Instagram is finally testing a feature that will let users turn off read receipts for Instagram DMs. This way, even if you have read someone’s message, they won’t see the “seen” label below the ...

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Read receipts feature is supported for both, personal chat as well as group chat of 20 or fewer members but it does not work for Teams Channel conversations. You can turn off the Read Receipts or ...

We have come a long way since the early days of text messaging, when you had limited characters, you couldn't send emojis, or even know when the other person had opened the message. Read receipts have ...