Message receipt acknowledgement not implemented by Apple ?!

settings - message - send read receipts - on

Well, I don't think it's possible, You can contact your carrier and see if they can do it.

Or send your feedback to apple here

http://www.apple.com/feedback/

You can also search the app store and see if you find it.

good luck

It should say "Delivered" underneath the message once it's delivered. This is on by default, no setting needs to be changed.

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Guess not too many people are really interested in that, as this is the first request I've seen regarding this. All you can do is leave feedback, as already mentioned. Also, I don't know if many (or any) carriers would even support this.

I hope this helps:

I suggest install the app SMSReports. When you want to receive sms repeipt from the recipient start to write from this app.

If you want to find out the "magic" behind it: one simply has to prepend a string (operator dependent) to the sms text.

In my case I configured my operator (Sweden 3) in SMSReports and it acutally prepends *KV# to my sms messages to require receipt from the recipient. When I want send an sms using iMessages only I simply have to prepend *KV# to the text. Simple as that and it works.

It's really annoing that this feature -which as old as the SMS service is- is still not implemented in iMessages!

Apple:please implement it!

I think you answered your own question. I don't know for sure but maybe the other person needs to have their "send read receipts" on. It's default is off and could be a privacy issue.

iMessage offers delivered/read reciepts but regular SMS messages do not. This has never been supported on the iPhone.

I thought delivered mean it was DELIVERED to the phone, and then it shows READ when that person has read it.

The sender will also need to enable Read Reciepts on their iOS device for it to work. I have a few friends who have it disabled and all it will say is Delivered, not 'Read at (time)'. It's disabled by default for privacy reasons and its up to that person if they want to enable it. Just because you have it on doesn't mean everyone does.

I see there are other users who would use this.

It is up to apple to implement this basic feature. There are some apps in the app store trying to work around it but those apps are not well integrated in the original iMessage. They aren't solution to this missin feature problem.

The feature exists since sms is arround and has been implemented on the major part of the mobile device vendors products. I'd welcome some activity on this issue from Apple!

Still not solved!

The difficulty here is that the SMS system itself doesn't implement the ACKs. SMS as a protocol neither guarantees delivery nor acknowledges it. You can add some bytes to the message packet (specifically, prefix the message with "*0#" or "*N#") asking for an acknowledgement, but it is typically ignored by most systems or, if observed, generally acknowledges receipt at the gateway, not at the recipient device.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS#GSM and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_message_service_technical_realisation_(GSM)

I am missing this feature too. My friends and I used it as our local Vodafone network often fails to deliver messages until hours later. My Andriod phone had it.