*app, not “up”

When I send people texts, they might be Apple users or any other various phones and texting apps, are any of their texting apps such that it notifies them when a message has been seen or read?

I don’t get “seen” or “read” information on my end. Do they?

  • Margot Robbie@lemmy.worldM
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    7 months ago

    They don’t. iMessage doesn’t have read receipts built in for SMS (green bubbles), only blue bubbles sent from an Apple device.

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    7 months ago

    Not sure about Samsung’s app, but google messages will encrypt and do read receipts for other users also using google messages, but not for any other variant which is just decade old technology instead (SMS). It works the same as an iPhone user with iMessage.

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      7 months ago

      Thank you. now I’m curious, is there a list of apps and phones etc that provide “seen” and “read” receipts?

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          7 months ago

          SMS is like shouting into a room full of people and assuming the other person heard you.

          So are you saying that when I send someone a text, a dozen random people receive that text and may or may not have actually been received by the intended recipient? Please explain.

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            7 months ago

            No, it’s a bad analogy. SMS is more like shooting a homing missile at someone, and then walking away. It’s probably going to find them, but if it doesn’t, you won’t know until you ask them about it.