Is there a way to check to make sure your texts are being sent?
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A friend has Android and she texted her sister-in-law, who didn’t respond, and she texted someone else who didn’t respond. She admits that her relationship with her SIL is not the best so she was open to maybe the SIL purposely didn’t respond, but then when the other person didn’t respond, she got suspicious that it’s the phone.
She moved recently to another state and she had some phone problems, where, when she and I were talking on the phone, it would disconnect, so she is thinking maybe there’s some type of issue with the phone or the service. I think she has Verizon but I’m not sure.
Is there a way for a person to check to see if their texts are all being sent? I suggested she turn the phone off and turn it back on, and she said she did that. I also suggested she text the other person (not the SIL) and ask “hey, I just wanted to make sure you got my text” but I don’t know if she’s open to that. Is there any other way?
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You can request a “read receipt” on Android (it’s a setting in Messages) but the person on the other end has the option to NOT send receipt messages back. I turned mine off years ago.
If the person doesn’t want you to know if they read the message, there isn’t an automatic way to inform you. Sort of a privacy thing.
Of course, you can copy yourself (in a group message that includes both you and her) which will let you know that the message entered the phone network, but won’t prove that she received it and/or read it.
Our dog sitter, many years ago, switched from Verizon to Cricket. Big problems with dropped calls and lost texts. It was Cricket !
Have your friend contact customer service for their phone company.
I have android.
I long press a text, 3 verticle dots in the top right corner pop up.
I click on it then click “view details” It tells me when my message was sent, received, and if it was read followed by a time. Ideally the sent and received time is the same.
If they do not have read receipts on, you will only see “sent” and “received” if it does not say received usually that means it has not been delivered.
If she has RCS google messaging turned on, even if the other person has it turned off she should still see 2 circles with checkmarks in them when she taps the message.
1 circle is sent, 2 is delivered, and if they are filled in (if the person has it turned on) it means read. But that is hit or miss because its google messaging, but it is the default on a lot of phones so sharing it anyways.
Hope that makes sense?
My Android always tells me if it wasnt sent in red text by the message. My aunts phone service fails often and primarily hers is the only ones that do that.
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