Apple's iMessage app lets you know if your message has been read; the sender and recipient must be using iMessages on an iPhone or iPad and have read receipts enabled.
You won't be able to see if someone read your iMessage text unless they have Read Receipts turned on. Read WhatsApp messages will have two blue checkmarks underneath. Read Facebook Messenger messages will have the reader's profile picture underneath.
You must ask the recipient to enable the read receipts option in their Messages app. Only then can you see if the person has read your text.
On an Android
First, open your Messages app and navigate to the settings. Depending on your phone model, operating system, and cellular provider, you will notice one of the following: Read Receipts, Send Read Receipts or Request Receipt. Turn on the applicable option.
You only have to turn on the airplane mode of your device or shut down the internet. After that, you can read the message, and it will not show the read receipt to the sender. Note : The drawback is that the sender can see the read receipt whenever you turn on the internet or turn off the airplane mode.
When you send them an SMS and you get the "Delivered" notification underneath it, you weren't blocked. If you get a notification like "Message Not Delivered" or you get no notification at all, that's a sign of a potential block.
If you send a message as a regular SMS in the green text bubble and you do not get a “Delivered” notification but instead get a notification similar to “Message not Delivered” or no message at all, that means you were probably blocked.
“The last message that you know was received and responded to…should have a 'delivered' status,” Lavelle explains. If, under the messages you've sent after that, you don't see that “delivered” notification, that could mean that person has blocked you.
Unfortunately, no. If a text message is blocked by the recipient's Android phone, the sender will not see a "delivered" status on the message. The best way to determine if your message was blocked is to try and have an open conversation with the recipient.
A delivered text message status does not necessarily mean that the recipient reads the message. It simply means that the message was received by their device and is stored in their memory. The recipient may still choose not to read or open the message, even though it has been delivered successfully.
First things first: people are not notified when you block them. As soon as you block someone on iPhone, they lose the ability to text or call you. Except the blocking happens at the level of your device. So the person who was blocked won't know they're blocked when they try to call you.
If you have an iPhone and try to send an iMessage to someone who has blocked you, it will remain blue (which means it's still an iMessage). However, the person you've been blocked by will never receive that message.
A green bubble could also indicate that someone blocked you, especially when the bubbles have always been blue. When blocking occurs, iMessage sends your text, but the recipient never receives it. Your old messages remain blue, but the latest texts you send after they've blocked you turn green.
For Android, go to Settings > Call Settings > Additional Settings > Caller ID. Then, select Hide Number. Your calls will remain anonymous and you can bypass the blocked list.
Recipient has switched off their mobile
If you sent a text message when your recipient has switched off their mobile phone then the text message will not get delivered. Once you sent a text message to a switched-off mobile device, you don't have to resent the message.
Method 4: Check the Color of the Text Bubble
If you have text message fallback enabled, your device will resort to sending the message as a text, meaning the bubble will turn green after someone blocks you. If you are not blocked, then the bubble will turn blue.
If you make a call and receive an automated message along the lines of “the customer is unavailable,” that person's wireless carrier may have blocked you. The messages can vary, but the result is the same. Your call won't go through.
Delivered means that it's gotten to its destination. Read means that the user has actually opened the text in the Messages app.
Some people don't have receipts enabled, and it's usually pretty easy to tell. If you send messages to them and they respond to you, but there is still no read receipt, odds are good that their read receipts are disabled. With Community, there are typically not regular read receipts that go along with text messages.
That's because the texts are being sent to an ID that is listed as an iMessage receive ID on both devices. See Settings > Messages > Send & Receive > You can be reached by iMessage at: Correct this so each device has a unique ID.
Go to Settings > Messages, then turn Read Receipts off.
A hollow checkmark indicates that your message has been sent, and two hollow checkmarks mean that it has been successfully delivered. Upon the recipient seeing your text, the checkmarks turn into a filled icon.
Tap the person's profile icon at the top and then select the Info icon. Turn off the Send Read Receipts switch. You can also disable read receipts through the Contacts app.
What Happens if You Turn Read Receipts Off? If you turn read receipts off, the senders will not know if you opened their messages. Also, with read receipts off, you cannot know if the recipients opened your messages. So read receipts are a kind of trade-off.
Some people don't have receipts enabled, and it's usually pretty easy to tell. If you send messages to them and they respond to you, but there is still no read receipt, odds are good that their read receipts are disabled. With Community, there are typically not regular read receipts that go along with text messages.