You can see the status of the individual members by marking the message with a long press and then selecting the “Info” menu item via the three-point (Android) or gearwheel menu (iOS). The double gray check mark only appears in group chats when the message has been delivered to all members of the group. You can find out how to do this in our guide: Whatsapp: Hide online status. Sending read confirmations can also be switched off in the Whatsapp settings. This may be because the person has not actually read the message.

However, there is still no read confirmation of the message. Then it could not only be successfully transmitted to a Whatsapp server, but also forwarded from there to the device of the target person. Two gray ticks on Whatsapp – that means the symbolĪfter a while, a second gray checkmark usually appears next to the sent message. Poor reception can also be the reason for a failure to deliver. Their device is often in flight mode or is switched off. If a gray check mark appears next to the message even after a long period of time, the message was successfully sent, but the target person has so far not been able to receive it. Whatsapp thus indicates that the message has successfully left your device and has arrived on a messenger service server. The single gray tick is the first tick symbol that appears when the message is sent. We explain what the different symbol variants mean in detail. In total, Whatsapp knows three different check mark symbols: a gray tick, two gray ticks and two blue ticks. To do this, however, users first need to know what the individual symbols stand for. This makes it clear at first glance whether the person you have written to has already received the message or even read it. The messenger service shows the reading status of the text with the tick symbols that appear behind every message sent via Whatsapp.

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