Great tip! It seems you can also just hold it, type one or as many symbols/numbers as you need to with your other thumb, then let go and it goes back to the letters

It’s a bug that happens when downloading messages from iCloud to a new phone.

Not using the native iOS messaging app you don’t. Apple and iOS doesn’t support RCS so what you are saying is impossible. Meaning you are lying

Nope. Not true at all. My bro has an android phone. I get read receipt after I text him and he reads the text. I have the iPhone 14 pro

They do not support them in the native message app on iOS. The carriers that do support read receipts either A. Have their own app, or use Googles version of RCS.

It’s a bug that happens when downloading backed up Messages.

iOS doesn’t support RCS, so it’s impossible for read receipts to work for anything other than iMessage.

Read receipts don’t work for normal text on iOS. You have to support RCS, and iOS doesn’t.

I noticed this too when I got a new phone (iPhone 12 to 13)

I’m with you there. We always use ESR or Spigen glass screen protectors and haven’t had any issues. My wife and daughter have the Armorite on, and it’s crystal clear.

Android can and so can iPhones. Very unlikely if you only download legit apps on the App Store or google play store.

Nope. It’s a read receipt. iOS and android both have it

It’s a read receipt

The reactions are something that Android supports for compatibility. Apple does not support RCS.

RCS

Recently switched to iOS from android and remember receiving the ‘reactions’ from iPhones. Might be starting two way comms

Non-jailbroken iPhones can't get viruses to my knowledge. Android phones can but only if you install apps from outside the app store. Viruses aren't just something that happens to devices, they require user input to install, with a small handful of exceptions on PCs.

Ok hold on. I went back to all my other non iPhone messages. They all say “read” on the last message I had with them before I lost my phone. So I lost my phone dec 26 on a cruise and received my new iPhone Jan 4. All messages prior to Dec 26 say read!!! That’s weird.

Update: I had put my phone in lost mode/suspend with my carrier around Jan 2 when I got back to Miami from the cruise.

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Some carriers support sms read receipts, it’s much harder to opt in on some devices and you need to usually be on the same carrier. Old CDMA and GSM phones offered this, usually symbolized with one or two checks.

It’s a bug

Lol

Nice tip, thank you!! And the opposite works, too! Hold the ABC key, the keyboard switches to letters, drag your finger to the letter, then release, and keyboard switches back to numbers.

This has happened to me before too with an Android phone. Same situation where they have never owned an iPhone. It only happened once and I have no clue why it happened.

Virus?

No. You aren't hacked or scammed. Some people buy SIM cards in the target country, activate them, then sell them in the US for sale. It's because it's probably difficult or impossible for you to do it yourself in that country. It's pretty common, actually. They make money by buying it cheap and selling to you for more. You're safe as long as you have control over the phone number which cb you do.

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