How to turn off read receipts for all contacts

Can someone pls suggest me why it is shown read though I have turned off read receipts, restarted again and again

It’s October 2024 and this is still an issue. It’s so annoying that nothing has been done to fix this. Almost as if nobody at Apple cares.

THIS IS AN ABSOLUTE VIOLATION OF PRIVACY !!! I’ve had this bug for maybe 2 + years. This is a BASIC, settings control. THIS NEEDS TO BE A TOP PRIORITY FOR APPLE. TOP TOP TOP, nothing more important. I’ve changed the settings, rebooted…. FIX this issue APPLE with the next release !!!!!!

After a fairly long call with Apple Support I think I have this issue fixed, at least for now. I had to go into each text strand, tap the contact and check if Read Receipt was turned on there. I did find two people who had that turned on even though I had it off under Settings. Once they were turned off for those two it stopped. The fact that two other contacts (my daughters) we not on but they were still getting them is not real comforting.

I have turned off the read receipt function in settings. I have also turned it off in the thread by contact. IT DID NOT WORK!

Now what?

This does not work, at least for me. It says it’s off but then still shows up as read.

I called and talked to multiple people and they had me trouble shoot a lot but they weren’t able to fix the issue.

I was having all the same issues and was able to figure it out. First, (and I’m not sure if this actually mattered) I restarted my phone. Then I turned the global read receipts in settings on, waiting a few seconds, then turned it off again. Then I started going to individual messages in iMessage and opening the contact card at the top of the message. The read receipts that were turned off were now showing as enabled. Turns out I just had two individuals (in the last few dozen people I texted) who were getting read receipts so I just manually turned those off. I checked with a few more contacts who were getting iMessages from me where read receipts were still off and they confirmed they weren’t seeing my read receipts.

Maemaemaemaemae wrote:

PLEASE FIX THE IMESSAGES READ RECEIPTS APPLE!!

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Eves567 wrote:

Dear apple support,

Why hasn’t this issue been fixed?

My read receipts are turned off in settings and for all individual contacts but still showing read receipts for certain contacts.

This is awful!! Please fix this issue!! Thank you!!

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I am still having this issue as of today. This is a huge privacy issue. The amount of bugs I have encountered with these new updates is concerning.

We’ve noticed this happens for my husband too, but it’s when he reads a message on his Apple Watch, it will send a ‘read’ receipt. But then the normal setting will apply for his phone (which won’t show the read receipt) if he reads the message on his phone. Not sure if anyone else having this problem also has an Apple Watch that might be contributing to the problem

Everyone, you need to call and report the issue. No one from Apple is reading these comments. I called on Monday and no one seemed to know this was an issue at all.

If everyone calls in, they can start to understand that it’s a bug they have to fix.

Same here and it’s extremely frustrating! I have always made sure to keep read receipts off but today I found out that those are being sent anyway! I followed the steps provided here but the problem remains. Read receipts are turned off (as they’ve always been) in both settings and my contacts (only checked the ones I text most). Read receipts were turned on for one contact despite the fact that I’ve never turned it on before! Turned it off but still problem remains. Seriously, please fix this now!!

Thank you. They are randomly turned on at the contact level (which I’ve never set up before) . Read receipts are off in settings - it seems iso updates cause them to be randomly turned on for some contacts. Very odd and frustrating.

You have to do it for each individual , click on the contact name in messenger and choose send read receipts slide left, very deceiving that you must do each individual. It use to be if you turned off in general and then messenger,