Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When you notice read receipts more than you want to admit, it’s usually not about the technology—it’s about what they activate in ...

Raise your hand if you’ve been here: You’ve just received a text, but you don’t have the time (or energy) to respond just yet. You plan to leave it unread…until a slip of the finger opens the message ...

When you send a text message, you might not expect a reply right away. But do your expectations change when you know that your text has been read? On iPhone or Android phones, visual cues in iMessage ...

Still in testing, Google Messages has made a small color tweak to the upcoming redesign of RCS read receipts that makes the indicator bolder. The original design had the circular background of the ...

Google Messages has embraced the modern RCS (Rich Communication Services) protocol, which is gradually replacing SMS. If you and the person you're messaging both use RCS chat, Google Messages can ...

To learn more about our editorial approach, explore The Direct Message methodology. There’s a particular kind of person in every workplace who leaves their read receipts on. Always. For every platform ...