Read receipts not working

So what finally worked for me is turning off read receipts, Sign out of iMessage (actually signing out your Apple ID), resetting the network settings, reboot, turn on iMessage (sign in again) and turn on read receipts.

After signing out and signing back in of iMessage/iCloud a million times - the only thing that worked for me was deleting the entire text thread and starting a new one 😒😭 I even backed up my phone right before so, thinking the problem was solved, I factory reset, got everything restored from the backup and the problem began again; only to ONE contact (I have read receipts on for everyone) but it was only not showing “read” to my girlfriend, who of course is my most frequent contact. Just deleted the thread AGAIN and the read receipts started working immediately. Very annoying, also very unfortunate to have to lose all those messages. I have a Mac and Apple Watch as well, they were showing as “read” in our convos on both of those devices, just not my phone for some reason.

When in a text message with another iPhone person click their name at the top. Click the “i” the scroll down to the send read receipts options and turn it on.

All you have to do is go to messages in settings. Turn off iMessage. Wait a few mins and then turn it back on. iMessage will re-activate and then read receipts will work again.

Same problem. My girlfriend and I have read receipts on only for each other. I noticed I couldn’t tell when she read my messages. She just recently upgraded to 12.0.1, and has done everything you listed; reboot, hard reboot, toggle read receipts on and off. It’s on, but my texts show as delivered.

It JUST started when she downloaded 12.0.1, so it must be bug with the iOS and individual read receipts. I noticed if she turns on “full” read receipts for everyone (not just an individual text thread), it works.

Hopefully Apple will correct this issue.

Had the same thing happening to me and the only way I could solve it was by calling apple support and the lady on the phone told me to essentially back up my phone to iCloud or iTunes and then factory reset my phone after backing it up, then restore it to my backup and it worked ! iMessages show read again

so back up your iPhone

factory reset you’re iphone

restore iPhone from latest backup

read receipts should start working again

I called today and got the solution. I didn’t have to change my id. I just had to sign out or iMessage and sign back in.

Here's what worked for me. Settings > Messages > Send & Receive > Apple ID > Sign Out.

Sign Back In.

Worked on both XS and iPhone 7.

Happy New Year!

Funny that this thread should get resurrected today. I literally fixed this finally yesterday. I deleted the text thread with my wife on my mac (desktop) messages app. I started a new thread with her on the mac. We both then had to turn back on read receipts for each other. Suddenly, it's all working as expected. The weird thing is I didn't need to delete the thread on my phone. The history all remains there, but now read receipts work there too.

Useful thread and tried some of the suggestions but none worked, but ultimately I had to completely wipe my IOS Device (Tried my ipad first) setup as new, allow icloud to sync messages and contacts...it works - my wife started to get read receipts from me again, I then restored my ipad to that days backup and retained the read receipt capability. I then painfully repeated the process on iPhone and all worked.

Ipad pro v 3 12.9 / iphone XS Max 12.2.b1

ps i did try the reset of network settings before all this and no luck.

Ok, and I learned that signing out of iCloud wasn’t the same thing. To sign out of iMessages follow these steps:

Settings

Messages

Send & receive

Then sign out.

I had the same issue. Where I couldn’t see that my fiancé read my messages. I tried it all too. The only thing that resolved it was that I signed out of my Apple ID for iMessages.

I call Apple support and a lot of people are having this issue after the update on iOS they said if restarting you device doesn’t work to just wait for the next update. It’s annoying it was working a few weeks ago but there’s a bug on the new update. Also anyone else notice that when you click the i icon at the top of the message and scroll through the images sent it glitches? They also said that if you have your device backed up you can do a factory reset and then MAYBE it’ll work again but it’ll delete everything that’s on your phone. So I’d say just wait for the next update.

The person who you’re trying to get the read receipts from has to reset their settings completely for it to work. I was having the same problem with my bf. I thought he just turned his off but after three days he reset his settings and it started showing as read. ☺️

delete the entire conversation then start a new chat - this worked for me