WHATSAPP has billions of users – and there’s a good chance not all of them understand the tick system.
If you’ve ever wondered why you sometimes see one or two grey ticks – or even blue ticks – then we’ve got the answers.
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What does one grey tick mean on WhatsApp?
When you only have one tick, that simply means that your message has been delivered to the Whatsapp server.
Note that this does not mean that it has been delivered to the recipient yet.
If your messages keep showing with just one tick, this might also mean that whoever you’re sending the message to has blocked you.
What do the blue ticks mean on WhatsApp?
With the new version of WhatsApp, ticks appear next to every message you send.
Two grey ticks mean the message has been delivered to the recipient’s phone.
When the two ticks are highlighted in blue, this means that the recipient has read your message.
If the message does not appear with any ticks and is instead a ‘”timer” image, this means the sender is in an area of low coverage.
Can you turn the blue ticks off?
If you do not want to send or receive read receipts, it’s an easy process to turn them off.
First, open the WhatsApp app and tap the three vertical dots in the top right corner.
Select Settings, then Account and then tap Privacy.
This window will then give you several privacy options including turning off your “Last Seen” status, changing your profile photo, your live status and location and finally the read receipts.
Tap to uncheck the ticked box and you have successfully turned off read receipts.
However, if you turn off read receipts you will not be able to see read receipts from other people.
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What happens if your ticks stay grey on WhatsApp?
If the ticks on your sent messages have stayed grey, this could mean a few different things.
First it could mean that the message has been delivered to the recipient’s phone but they have not read it.
However, if you know the recipient has been online since you sent the message, it might be the case that they have their read receipts off and have yet to answer your message.
But if there’s only one tick on your message and it stays grey then there might be a chance that you have been blocked by the recipient.
WhatsApp deliberately keeps the indicators that you have been blocked ambiguous to maintain users’ privacy but the main signs you have been blocked include you can no longer see a contact’s last seen or online in the chat window, you do not see updates to a contact’s profile photo, any messages sent to a contact who has blocked you will always show one tick and never two ticks and any calls you attempt to place will not go through.
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