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How to turn off read receipts for all contacts

Read receipts are turned off on my phone 13 mini, up to date at version 16.3, but they are still being shown to people I text. I have tried turning receipts on and off, and resetting my phone. I have also tried deleting the contact & message convo, then restarting my phone and messaging them again and it still shows them my read receipts.

Any ideas how to fix this?

I'm very uncomfortable with this since I wouldn't have even known if my contact hadn't brought it up wondering why I had them on.

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iPhone 13 Mini

Posted on Feb 7, 2023 7:20 AM

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judysings

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Posted on Feb 8, 2023 1:34 PM

Good Afternoon Not_Much,

Welcome to the Apple Support Communities!

It sounds like you are having issues with Read Receipts in the Messages app, and we'd like to help.

You've already done some great troubleshooting, and turning off the switch in Settings > Messages > Send Read Receipts should affect all messages.

However, you do have the ability to change that setting for certain individuals. So, we'd like to ask you to check this setting for the individual(s) who state they can see the Read Receipt. To do this:

Open the Messages app

Tap on the conversation with this individual
Tap their icon at the top of the display. This will open their contact card.
Make Send Read Receipts is toggled off (the switch is white) for this individual as well.
Tap Done.

If you're seeing that the feature is disabled for these contacts as well, Contact Apple Support so they can look into this with you further.

Take care.

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Dec 18, 2023 5:47 AM in response to Not_Much

My wife had the same problem. What you have to do is, go into your messages, click each contact and turn off read receipts for each individual contact.

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@Chipsandguac12 How do you get to "global read receipts," please?

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

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Mar 4, 2024 5:47 PM in response to Not_Much

It’s March 4, 2024… has anyone figured out what is causing this? It’s not all iPhone users but I know it’s still happening to me as well.

May 12, 2024 10:12 AM in response to judysings

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?

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Sep 10, 2024 6:02 AM in response to Not_Much

Having same issue, i would have never of known if , i did not see it for myself on someones phone. Where is the fix for this.

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Sep 10, 2024 6:04 AM in response to Mr. Fazookus

I tried that didn't work

Sep 28, 2024 12:23 PM in response to Not_Much

I have just found out recently SEP2024 that my read receipts will NOT turn off no matter what I do. Needs to be fixed ASAP

Oct 3, 2024 9:52 PM in response to Not_Much

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.

Feb 17, 2024 7:04 AM in response to Not_Much

12 mini; iOS 17.2.1; Read Receipts turned off in settings. Didn’t know until today, 2/17/2024 that my texts are sending read receipts. VERY UNHAPPY about this. Based on this thread this has been an issue for over a year now. Apple, why has this issue not yet been resolved?

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