WhatsApp has the double blue check. Messenger has read receiptsa thumbnail photo of the other person next to the last message in the conversation you read. Over all these years, Messenger has allowed us to hide that we're online, but not the read receipts. Until very recently.
Yeah: you can disable read receipts in Messengerso the other person won't be able to tell if or when you read the message. In exchange, you won't be able to see read receipts either, just like what happens when you turn them off in WhatsApp.
Read without a trace in Messenger
Messenger read receipts are somewhat different from WhatsApp, since a call sign is not included in each read message, but rather a unique indicator is used. to show how far they have read. The code is none other than the profile photo of the recipient of the message.
In addition, this read receipt is completely accurateso if someone has a pending chain of messages and only reads a few of them, those will be the ones marked as read. In other words, only messages displayed on the screen are marked as read. WhatsApp, for its part, marks all messages in a conversation as read when we open the chat.
Messenger read receipts show the other person's profile photo
During all these years, Facebook Messenger has gone hand in hand with its read receipts, without it being possible to deactivate them, which most messaging applications allow. A little late, but the joy is good: it is now possible disable Messenger “double check”.
To do this, you just have to open the application and enter the options section. To do this, press the menu button ☰ and, in the side panel that opens, press gear icon.
Once in the settings, go to the section Privacy and securitywhere in the most recent versions of the application you will find a setting that did not exist before: Read receipts.
The only thing you're missing is turn off the switch and the free bar will open so you can read messages in Messenger without stopping and without them knowing that you are reading them. On the other hand, you will not be able to know whether or not they have read the messages you have sent.
In the case of Messenger, disable read receipts goes fairly unnoticedsince messages are always marked as delivered, but the icon with the other person's profile picture never shows.
If you want to be a real message reader ninja, don't forget to also disable connection status, in the same privacy menu, in Active status.
Featured Image | Ivan Ramirez
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