Read receipts not working

I’ve done Everyone’s advices here but but one.

I did not deleted my chat/ messages history of me and my husband.

They said, (a couple of members here and...I even went to Apple store)

I was told to backup up my iMessage messages on iCloud so I will not lose anything and then delete my husbands info and then delete our chat/ or tread on iMessage. They said it worked out to so many but, I cannot delete our conversation that we had for years, even if you can still keep them on iCloud, you cannot put the messages back on your iMessage app which is (for me) is frustrating so I refrain from doing it.

still I’m not getting the “read” sign.

From Apple staff :

1. backup your phone (or just your iMessage?)
2. delete contact info (my husbands info)
3. Delete (completely) your whole tread on iMessage (like everything)
4. logout of Apple including iMessage (all your devices like computer, iPad etc.)
5. turn off WiFi
6. turn off iPhone
7. wait till iPhone is completely off for a minute.
8. turn on iPhone back
9. Turn wifi on
10. Sign in back to Apple.
11. sign in back on iMessage
12. send a message (iMessage from scratch of course), like putting husbands phone number.
13. Send a test text
14. put back to contact list.

it should be working they said.

I did not tried this method since (like I said) I can’t lose my chat/ tread of me and my husband that’s been there for years.

(I’m using X and husband is 8)

i hope this this works for you.

goodluck

Thanks!!!! TLMoore601

This worked on both mac and iPhone. However, both iPads would not let me sign back in (greyed out). I signed out of iCloud, didn't keep anything, signed back in and YES! It is now working everywhere.

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

We have at least found a workaround. Since mine do not show up as read on my families phones, I just place my finger on their message, wait for the bubble to pop up and tap one of the icons

To fix read receipt message CHANGE your Apple ID email and it will start working. Takes just a few min to fix this headache! Be Blessed!

If you're sharing an Apple ID, that could be part of your problem.

My wife and daughter did not see my read receipts. I tried it all. Then, out of the blue, my daughter started seeing them. (iPhone 8 for her.) Then yesterday my wife saw ONE read receipt and then it stopped. (iPhone 7) This seems to suggest to me that it is the Apple servers. Another reason I think that is the problem is that yesterday, we all three got a message that the recipient was driving and would get back to you when they arrived at their destination. All at the same time. We were sitting watching a Christmas movie. None of us have DND turned on while driving.

IMO this shouldn't be marked as the solution. I believe OP (and at the very least myself) have read receipts on correctly. I have then on for everyone and the contact in question but he still doesn't get read receipts. Everyone of my other contacts gets them (from what I can tell). The contact that isn't working is my SO and we have a really long chat history so I wonder if that's part of it. I've tried every solution on here, signing out of iCloud on all my devices, disabling iMessage, rebooting the phone, etc. and nothing has worked. This also started for me roughly when I installed 12.0.1 (as another user said).

This is definitely a bug that Apple needs to fix.

I'm a developer so if anyone has any ideas I'm happy to dig into my chat.db. So far I don't see any message corruptions.

Tried everything and even called apple support but they couldn’t help me either. I found that the read receipts doesn’t work on my xs max but work on my iPad and iPhone 7. It’s annoying and it only started happening when I updated to the latest iOS. Might just wait till the next update and if that still doesn’t work I was suggested to reset completely which is something I’m hesitant to do.

I have done this several times and it hasn't helped. From what I have been reading here, it seems to be people in families that are having the issue... like myself and my husband but it works for everyone else. not sure what the connection is. we did just recently switch carriers but it was working after we switched just fine then stopped one day... funny though it works with my same Apple ID on my laptop and iPad, same for him... just not our phones

Same! It’s already about to be December, and it looks as if the don’t even care. Maybe if we open a few tickets, they’ll look into it more

I am having the same problem with my daughter’s phone. I can see when other people have read but not her. We have tried everything. How is there no solution to this?

I’ve got the same problem too, with just one contact - it’s driving me around the bend ! 🤬🤯

Still no solution ? I’ve just done the 12.1.2 update and no difference ....

So I had my read receipts on with a specific person...

How do you do that?

Just to clarify, the "Read" receipt is for you to know if that person has read your message. Nothing will show on your phone that you read their message. So, are you seeing delivered on your phone? If you expect to see "Read" then it's possible that person turned off their read receipts. Please let us know if you're expecting something different.

I’ve been having SO many issues with my iPhone 7plus ever since I upgraded the software to iOS12.1! So frustrating! There’s a laundry list of problems that I need to visit an Apple Store to talk to someone about. You aren’t the only one experiencing issues since the update!