How to Understand the Delivered and Read Icons in Google Messages
RCS, or Rich Communication Services, is a messaging protocol that Google has embraced as its version of iMessage. It allows Android users to effortlessly text one another while making use of all the good features that modern-day texting apps bring.
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How to Activate Read Receipts in Google Messages
In order to check whether the recipient has seen your messages, both parties need tocheck for RCS messaging supporton their phones and must have the read receipts option turned on.
Once you have this feature enabled, you’ll be able to see your message delivery and seen status.
What Do the Checkmarks Mean in Google Messages?
Up until now, a simple Sent, Delivered, and Seen text would relay the status of your messages. However, for reasons unbeknownst, Google Messages is now replacing the obvious text indicator with three different kinds of checkmarks.
These checkmark icons follow a similar trend to otherpopular messaging platformssuch as WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger. A hollow checkmark indicates that your message has been sent, and two hollow checkmarks mean that it has been successfully delivered. Upon the recipient seeing your text, the checkmarks turn into a filled icon.
While this might visually make the texting experience slightly less cluttered, it is a far cry from being as simple and to the point as the older text indicators were.
Use RCS Messaging for a Richer Texting Experience
Google’s dedication to RCS has been successful in pushing a tiny population of Android users to use a unified messaging platform. The inclusion of features such as read receipts, larger photos and videos, typing indicators, and message reactions, all make the experience quite blissful.
There’s even an option to resend texts as regular SMS/MMS if your RCS connection stops working.
Learn how you can force Google Messages to automatically revert to SMS or MMS whenever RCS fails.
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