In most apps, the read receipt system is a two way thing, meaning if you disable sending read receipts, you can’t receive any read receipts, either.
How To Turn Off Read Receipts In WhatsApp
Disabling read receipts in WhatsApp is fairly easy. Here’s how to do it in the Android version of the app. As of this writing, you can’t turn off read receipts for WhatsApp groups.
How To Turn Off Read Receipts In Microsoft Teams
Microsoft Teams works the same way as WhatsApp and lets you either block both incoming and outgoing read receipts or block nothing.
How To Turn Off Read Receipts In Twitter
Twitter has an option that allows you to turn off read receipts for the direct messages you send and receive from the users on the site.
How To Turn Off Read Receipts In Viber
When it comes to privacy, Viber offers many features that you can enable and disable for your account. It has the read receipts option as well but it doesn’t call it that. It calls it “seen status” and you can turn it on and off as you please.
How To Turn Off Read Receipts In Skype
Skype lets you turn off read receipts using two ways. You can either change your current status to invisible and that won’t send any read receipts, or you can disable the actual option for the receipts.
Disable Skype Read Receipts By Changing The Status
Disable Skype Read Receipts By Turning Off Read Receipts Option
How To Turn Off Read Receipts In Google Hangouts
When you disable read receipts for Google Hangouts on your smartphone, the setting syncs across all your devices. As a result, it eliminates the need to disable the read receipts option on each device individually.
How To Turn Off Read Receipts In Outlook
The Outlook mobile app doesn’t currently have an option to disable read receipts. However, you can use an option on its web version to prevent your phone from sending read receipts.
How To Turn Off Read Receipts For iMessage
Apple’s iMessage also gives you the option to enable or disable read receipts for your conversations. You can turn it off from the Settings app if you no longer want your friends to know you’ve read their messages.
How To Turn Off Read Receipts In Facebook Messenger
There are few Facebook-owned platforms that don’t offer the option to disable read receipts and Facebook Messenger is one of them. You can’t prevent people from finding out if you’ve read their messages in Facebook Messenger on your devices. However, there’s a little trick that lets you “turn off” read receipts, at least for some time, in the Messenger app on your phones. Do you prefer your communication apps to send and receive read receipts? Or do you usually opt to turn off read receipts? Let us know in the comments below.
