![]() ![]() ![]() And the savvy know that glancing at a message on a lock screen or in a notifications centre is a good means of parsing a message without opening it. Facebook’s “seen by” on messages and chat, for instance, can be cheated using browser extensions. Snapchat even informs a person whether a screenshot of a snap has been taken. ![]() But sadistic platforms, Facebook and Snapchat, do not allow the feature to be turned off. However, this function can be toggled off, as with the blue ticks on WhatsApp. Read receipts come in different forms across platforms and operating systems.Īpple’s read receipts for iOS, introduced in 2011, signal when a message is “read”, rather than just “delivered”, along with a timestamp. It was thinking on this last one that had me wondering (paging Carrie Bradshaw): who the hell leaves read receipts on?įor the unfamiliar, a read receipt tells one the recipient of a text message has opened the message and has viewed it. Modern relations are a minefield: the mines are tears over internet search history, slanging matches about exes still friended on Facebook, or sniping at an unanswered text message.
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