How to Enable/Disable Read Receipts

101 Greatest iOS 9 Tips and Tricks for iPhone and iPad

To maintain transparency with, but also have the freedom to ignore your friends, err, just not reply if you’re busy — and DON’T want them to know if you’ve read their iMessage or not, thanks to Apple’s “Read Receipts” feature, now you can hide that activity from everyone in your contact list who also uses iMessage.

To toggle Read Receipts on and off, simply to go Settings > Messages, and then slide the Send Read Receipts toggle to on or off, according to your preferences. **Keep in mind: having this feature on will allow other iMessage users to see if their text to you was read, and if so, at what time.**

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