"Your Message Has Been Read" messages from Samsung Galaxy User
I have an iPhone, my friend has a Samsung Galaxy S4. Randomly, I will receive what looks like a text message from him saying "Your message to 555-555-5555 has been Read". (that's not his real phone number 😝)
In his messaging app, he does not even see this appear at his end, so it's not like he's typing it out. It doesn't even register as a message from his end. It seems to happen randomly with messages, but much more frequently if I send him a picture message.
I have swapped my iPhone with a new one under warranty including a new sim card, plus I've updated from iOS 6 to iOS 7, and it still happens.
On his Galaxy, he has Delivery Reports disabled under his settings. On my iPhone 4S, I have read receipts disabled as well.
He claims it's me requesting a read receipt, I claim it's his phone sending it to me. Either way it's annoying as ****! The fact that it doesn't show up in his messages app makes me think it's something behind the scenes or carrier related. I'm on Rogers, he's on Telus.
Can anyone help me figure out how to disable these messages from coming in?
Here are pictures to show what I mean:
iPhone message: https://www.dropbox.com/s/r1e9u79yjj5jw2a/IMG_3734.PNG
iPhone message from lockscreen: https://www.dropbox.com/s/b97vkfqiff0y2p2/IMG_3736.PNG
Galaxy message: https://www.dropbox.com/s/a21k5xfjtxffoc7/IMG_3737.JPG
Galaxy settings: https://www.dropbox.com/s/s1dne2ozb6im6k7/IMG_3735.JPG
Galaxy settings:
SMS - Delivery Reports unchecked
MMS - Delivery Reports unchecked
MMS - Read reports unchecked
iPhone 4S, iOS 7