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A user I iMessage with has his phone turned off (I had send as sms enabled) and now our messages are showing as green. I also cannot toggle my “read receipts”. Is this because the last message that went through was as an SMS? Will read receipts return once an iMessage has successfully gone through?
iPhone 12 Pro Max
Yes, the read receipt feature only works on iMessages and not on SMS messages. It will work once you return to iMessage.
Is it possible that your friend has iMessages set to OFF? If one of you have your iMessages set to OFF then the only way left to communicate is through SMS messaging. Have your friend open Settigns ➔ Messages: here, ensure that iMessages is set to ON.
If all the settings check out good at both ends then you may wish to start a fresh iMessage thread. This can be done by both of you deleting the existing message thread between the two of you and starting a fresh thread. See whether this action returns the conversation in iMessage mode.
Axel F.
Yes, the read receipt feature only works on iMessages and not on SMS messages. It will work once you return to iMessage.
Is it possible that your friend has iMessages set to OFF? If one of you have your iMessages set to OFF then the only way left to communicate is through SMS messaging. Have your friend open Settigns ➔ Messages: here, ensure that iMessages is set to ON.
If all the settings check out good at both ends then you may wish to start a fresh iMessage thread. This can be done by both of you deleting the existing message thread between the two of you and starting a fresh thread. See whether this action returns the conversation in iMessage mode.
Axel F.
Whenever he is in a low service area or his phone is off it switches to “sent as text”. Our messages return to iMessage when he has service again. Will read receipts toggle return again once this happens? Thanks for the great reply!
Yes. Once you have successfully exchanged iMessages then you should be able to set the read receipt to ON.
Axel F.
iMessage read receipts and phone off
