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 ...

When you send a text message, you might not expect a reply right away. But do your expectations change when you know that your text has been read? On iPhone or Android phones, visual cues in iMessage ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link In addition to AirDrop, iMessage is one of Apple's most useful tools. The instant messaging feature allows you to conveniently send messages, ...

In October 2011, Apple created what would come to be one of the most contentious technological controversies of our time: To read receipt, or not to read receipt? Read receipts, as anyone with an ...

If you text on an iPhone, you have the option to let your friends know when you've received their messages — a simple notification that says "read." It's called a "read receipt," and until this week, ...

On Thursday, Twitter introduced a feature nobody wanted: read receipts. The social media company announced changes to its direct messaging feature with a short video calling the new element "dynamic." ...

Bumble does not use read receipts to notify you if someone has read your message. Users can see if you start to type a response, so this can indicate you've seen the most recent message. Here's ...

Google is making a change to read receipts in Google Messages in RCS conversations. The redesign moves the checkmarks from under the text bubble to inside the bubble. This change allows read receipts ...

A response from an email recipient that indicates the message was opened. The read receipt has to be requested by the sender, and the recipient may or may not comply. Although it is called a "read" ...

Read receipts are a source of great contention. Are they pronounced "red" or "reed?" And more importantly, should you have them on? The answer: probably not. Read receipts are for weirdos. For the ...

Who among us has not at some point in time been shaken to their cores by the sheer sight of a read receipt? I know I have. The read receipts feature on iPhones — which, if enabled, notifies people ...