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The recipient has read the message or viewed the image, audio or video file you sent.

Your message has been delivered to the recipient's device, but the recipient has not yet seen the message. The message info screen will display the following information: On Android, tap on the three dots icon in the top right corner followed by pressing the Info option Tap and hold on the message you have sent. However, if this is a group chat, the two gray ticks won't turn blue until everyone in the group has read the message.įor all sent messages, you will be able to see the Message Info screen showing information about when the message was delivered, read, or played by the recipient. Two blue ticks mean the message has been read. However, the person has not read the message. Two gray ticks mean the message has arrived on the recipient's phone.

It could be that the internet connection is not good, the recipient is not activating his cellphone or you are blocked. There are many factors that keep the tick from turning into two ticks. But the message has not yet reached the recipient's cell phone. If you see a gray tick, it means WhatsApp has successfully sent the message. When the message is responded to by the recipient, the recipient will see a change in the WA GB checkmark. So through the tick we can see the status of the message sent. There are three stages in sending messages on WhatsApp. Some are gray, sometimes blue too, what does that mean? This means you can’t see when people read your messages even if they have read receipts enabled.Īnd keep in mind, no matter your read receipts settings, read receipts are always shown in group chats.When sending a message to someone on WhatsApp, we will see an accompanying tick mark. One thing to keep in mind is that if you shut off read receipts in WhatsApp, you will not be able to receive read receipts for your messages. On the Privacy screen, tap to toggle the Read Receipts switch to OFF (green).Tap the Setting icon in the app’s bottom toolbar.If you want to turn off read receipts, WhatsApp makes it very easy to do.
