WhatsApp Question Technology

[Son Of Jack]

I know that when a recipient of your WhatsAapp messages receives the message there are 2 grey ticks and the ticks turn blue when the messages are read.

However, on one of my contacts that I message approx every month, the ticks on all messages are 2 grey ones even though the messages have been read and replied to. I just happened to spot it as I was waiting since yesterday for a reply to a message which would appear to not be read.

What do you think that could be? I checked other contacts and they have blue ticks.

 

[Jess]

They likely have the read notification turned off at their end.

 

[Cherub]

You can change a setting in WhatsApp to not notify senders when you read their messages.

It's in settings / privacy / read receipts.

 

[Bandit]

You can turn off the read receipts in the settings, meaning that you won't show blue ticks to anyone and they won't know if you've read their message. As a trade-off, you won't see blue ticks on any messages you send to other people even if they're read either.

The above only applies to 1 on 1 chat and not to groups. You can't hide that you've read a group message.