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 ...

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 ...

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

Scrolling through messages, noticing that little “seen” tick, and wondering why someone didn’t reply yet, it’s a feeling that ...

Still in testing, Google Messages has made a small color tweak to the upcoming redesign of RCS read receipts that makes the indicator bolder. The original design had the circular background of the ...