It is possible to hide that you’ve read Facebook messages, and in fact, I wrote an entire guide about it. A small version of your friend’s photoīasically, if someone sends you an important message, you can use this feature of Facebook Messenger to mark it as unread so the notification reappears on your phone as a reminder to do something about this text. This means that the recipient read your message. Want to learn more? Take a look at my guide on how to become invisible on Facebook Messenger. They have not opened or read your message.Ī recipient that is not in your friends list might continue to give you this icon (or the previous one) because their message is in the earlier named queue waiting for them to read it.įriends might also have this icon last even when you are sure they saw the message, because their phone allowed them to read it from their notifications on the phone rather than to open the Facebook app and alert you the message was read.

It also means that the intended party has not read the message as long as you see the icon this way. This will indicate that your message has been delivered. It will reach their profile and be in a “message requests” queue until they open it there. Tip: You might have this message stay with this icon even if the recipient is connected to the internet if they are not in your friends list. If your recipient is not connected to the internet, your message may stay in this limbo until the message gets officially sent to the intended party. To put it plainly, it means that the message has received Facebook servers. This symbol will show your message has been sent. When you see this icon, the Facebook servers have yet to receive the message, so it has not been delivered to the intended recipient yet.

If you see this symbol, this is an indicator that your message is currently sending. Regardless if you use an iPhone or Android device, these icons and symbols will appear the same.

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