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iMessage read reports change from read to delivered

In the last couple of weeks I've noticed that when I send an iMessage from my iPhone 6 to my best friend, it first shows as delivered, as usual. She then reads it and it'll show as read. Then I'll go back into message later and it's turned back to delivered again, as tho the imessage hasn't been read at all.


Does anybody have an idea as to why its doing this?? Or what I can do to correct this???


Thank's in advance!!

iPhone 6, iOS 9.2.1

Posted on Mar 1, 2016 2:11 PM

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Sep 3, 2016 5:54 PM in response to Zae P.

Zae...I don't think your following the actual problem. Go back to page 1 and read the full complaint. This problem isn't that the other person is switching the read receipt off, this is truly a software issue. Look at this picture, look at the times delivered and times read.

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How can a text show read at a time later than a text delivered. The last text did show read at 7:35am but then changed on its own back to just delivered. I'm really hoping with the soon release of Ios 10 this will be fixed.

Sep 7, 2016 2:38 PM in response to loulour1982

I have this problem as well.. not a whole lot of my friends have their read receipts on to begin with but out of everyone that does it has done this to me as well. I know its a minor issue but it really is rather annoying. I am also using a Iphone 6+ and it doesnt seem to do it with neither my brother's 5, my dad's 5, nor my boyfriends 5. I would send a message to my boyfriend and he will read it then i will go back to it and it says delivered. Still dont know what causes it. Frustrating.

Sep 24, 2016 10:37 AM in response to cdwatnsu

I'm not sure if this has been noted before in this thread but I just realized that this is really only happening with ONE of my contacts. I have 3 contacts who I regularly message with who use read receipts, and 2 work without problem. Of course the one contact who I message the most is the one that gives me the disappearing read receipts. I tried turning read receipts on/off on both our phones, de/re-activating iMessage, and installing iOS 10.0.2 on both our phones. Still not working. Needless to say this is an important feature for us.


I've been an Apple user for over 20 years and while this is a fairly minor bug, it's amazing to me that they have not fixed it. I'm sure it wouldn't take a software engineer more than a day to get this fixed. It can't be that difficult considering that it worked for years without issue and still works on other devices.


Very disappointed in Apple right now.

Sep 28, 2016 7:48 PM in response to loulour1982

Im having this exact same issue. It started when I had the iPhone 6 I just upgraded to the 7 plus and it's STILL DOING THE SAME THING!!!!! It's sooo annoying. Who do we need to talk to about this? it works perfectly on my MacBook but on my phone it's not working right. It would show read then 5 mins later it changes back to delivered.

iMessage read reports change from read to delivered

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