Audio imessage disappeared from sender

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Audio imessage disappeared from sender

Let me explain it a bit more:

I sent an audio imessage #1 out to someone yesterday, and I did not play the audio message on my iphone. The message disappeared from my iphone this morning as I checked, so what does it mean?

Another audio imessage #2 was sent by me to the same person and I did not play it either. I saw that the imessage was kept.

1) Does it mean that the receiver opened both audio imessages and did not keep imessage #1?

2) Or it is simply a glitch in iphone?

3) Will I even know if the receiver played the audio imessage?

Please help!

iPhone 6s

Posted on Sep 1, 2016 6:06 AM

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Answer 1

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Michael Black

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Sep 1, 2016 6:37 AM in response to JohnTlov

You will only ever know if they listed to it if they enable read receipts on their device.

Audio messages expire based on whatever time limit you have set under your iMessage settings. However, if you send the audio file as an attachment, then the auto-expire function doesn't kick in.

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JohnTlov Author

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Sep 1, 2016 7:22 AM in response to JohnTlov

I might have to check the icloud and see if the message got backed up.

My first thought was the receiver played the audio imessage and did not keep it. So the audio imessage disappeared. But that would only happen to that receiver, instead of the sender.

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