Your iPhone May Be Sending Bulletin Read Receipts Even If You Turned Them Off

A recurring iOS bug that makes Apple's Messages app send read receipts despite the setting being disabled appears to exist on the upswing again, based on reports from users running iOS 15.

iOS 15 Messages Feature
In iOS, with read receipts enabled (Settings -> Messages -> Send Read Receipts), the "Delivered" text that a person sees under an iMessage they have sent you turns to "Read" when yous've viewed it in the conversation thread, so they know you've seen the message even if yous've not responded. The setting syncs across all Apple devices signed into the aforementioned Apple ID.

Over the final few years there have been sporadic reports that Messages doesn't ever find the user setting, but according to Macworld's Glenn Fleishman, the bug appears to exist rearing its head again, only this time for a larger number of users running the latest version of ‌iOS 15‌.

Some people have found that restarting their device resolves the trouble, at least temporarily, but no permanent fix has been discovered, suggesting Apple needs to change something well-nigh the fashion the function works in a future update to its mobile operating system. We'll update this commodity if we larn more.

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