Raise your hand if you’ve been here: You’ve just received a text, but you don’t have the time (or energy) to respond just yet. You plan to leave it unread…until a slip of the finger opens the message ...

When you send a text message, you might not expect a reply right away. But do your expectations change when you know that your text has been read? On iPhone or Android phones, visual cues in iMessage ...

Google Messages has embraced the modern RCS (Rich Communication Services) protocol, which is gradually replacing SMS. If you and the person you're messaging both use RCS chat, Google Messages can ...

You might bristle if you've been "left on read." But experts suggest that says more about you than the friend who turned on ...

To learn more about our editorial approach, explore The Direct Message methodology. There’s a particular kind of person in every workplace who leaves their read receipts on. Always. For every platform ...