Would you like to find out whether your WhatsApp message has been read but your contact has deactivated the blue ticks? So you can still find out via a detour.
When a WhatsApp message has been read by the recipient, the gray ticks turn blue. Then the sender knows that the recipient has read the message. (Source: netzwelt)
- Two blue ticks on WhatsApp indicate whether a message has been read.
- However, a contact can also deactivate these read receipts.
- However, there is a way to still find out if someone has read your message.
We all know the feeling of sending a message to our friends, family or crush via WhatsApp messenger and not receiving a response for hours. The mental cinema quickly begins and you ask yourself, has the message simply not been read yet or does the contact simply not want to answer us? WhatsApp actually answers this question via the tick next to a message.
A gray tick means the message has been sent but has not yet reached the recipient. Two gray ticks mean the message has been delivered but not yet read. Two blue ticks mean the message has been read. However, WhatsApp also allows you to deactivate read receipts. Then the ticks remain gray even after the message has been read. But there is a way to find out whether your contact has read a message, even if the blue ticks have been disabled.
Deactivating the read receipt does not work in groups
In WhatsApp groups, as you probably know, it’s pretty easy to find out who has read your message. To do this, simply press the info button on the message you want to examine. You will then be shown two group lists, those who “read” it and those who “received” the message. This also works if the person you are talking to has deactivated read receipts. One option is to create a group with just the contact in question and check whether they read your messages.
Things are different in private chats; if the other person has deactivated the “blue tick” function, there is no longer any way to find out whether your message has been read.
Conversely, do you want to make sure that no one knows whether you have read a WhatsApp message? Then we’ll show you in another article how you can read messages on WhatsApp without triggering the read confirmation – these tricks also work with groups.
Note: This text was published in 2023 by our former employee Jannes van Dreumel and has now been updated by the editorial team and republished due to current events.
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