• Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca
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    3 days ago

    As a sender; sometimes a message doesn’t warrant a response, but it’s nice to know it was actually received/seen.

    As a recipient though, I’ve always found it a tad creepy and turned it off on every phone I’ve had.

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      3 days ago

      Wait like SMS texts? They’re sending read receipts? Is that only with this android RCS thing? Or iPhones? Or just like… all phones now?

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        3 days ago

        I don’t think classic SMS does this, but RCS and IMessage both do. SMS has ‘delivery reports’ (ie, the carrier will let you know when they succeed in transmitting it to the phone), but not actual read receipts.

      • mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca
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        3 days ago

        from the 7 seconds I just spent looking into this, just RCS, not SMS/MMS

        because yeah my phone updated and defaulted to a new messages app that was using RCS and that annoyed me