

My personal method of using this feature is to opt to disable all Read Receipts in Messages on iPhone but then selectively enable Read Receipts per contact for just a few important people, while leaving the feature off for everyone else. Once you have enabled “Send Read Receipts” for an individual contact, they will see the little grey “Read” indicator after you have viewed their message, rather than the generic “Delivered” indicator under any messages sent to you. Repeat with other message threads and individual contacts as desired.Look for “Send Read Receipts” and toggle this to ON to set that specific contact to see read receipts from you, or toggle this to OFF to set that individual contact to not see read receipts from you.Tap the “(i)” button in the upper right corner of the message.Open the “Messages” app in iOS and go to an individual message conversation thread.You can enable read receipts per contact on any iOS device, whether iPhone or iPad.

This allows you to turn read receipts on or off on a per-contact and per-conversation basis. How to Selectively Enable Read Receipts for Individual Contacts in Messages for iOS You will need an iPhone or iPad running iOS 10 or later to have access to the individual Send Read Receipt feature. Per contact Read Receipts is an excellent feature for iPhone and iPad users, and it’s easy to enable and to customize to specific contacts.
