The ‘blue ticks’ were released earlier this month to eradicate all doubt over delivered messages. The new Read Receipts option will be seen right below the Blocked contacts option. Select Info icon and toggle off Send Read Receipt option. If you want to disable read receipts for specific chats, head to that user’s chat and click on the user’s profile pic. Earlier this week, Twitter decided to introduce read receipts on their DMs. Toggle it off to disable the ability completely. Yes, its possibly to turn off the read receipt. Then go to Account > Privacy and enable or disable the Read Receipts feature from there. An option called Send Read Receipts can be found here. Right now, this new version is in beta stage and is avaiable only on Android via WhatsApp s official website(available in apk format), but we can expect the company to roll out an update for iOS and Windows Phone users soon.įor all Android users, after updating your WhatsApp, you simply go to Settings from the upper right Menu option. This updated version of WhatsApp for Android (version 2.11.44) lets you disable this new feature under the privacy section of your settings menu. Also Read - WhatsApp iOS to Android chat history migration now available on Pixel, Android 12 devices Also Read - If WhatsApp chats are end-to-end encrypted, how celebs are getting in the soup?
Also Read - How to find archived WhatsApp chats on AndroidĪfter all the chatter on social media about the dreaded ‘blue ticks’ that were intruding into many people’s personal space, WhatsApp finally took the hint and rolled out an update with the option to disable Read Receipts.