Each of us is familiar with the following circumstances: we have read the message, but we do not want or cannot respond to it immediately. And our interlocutor sees that the message has been read, but there is no answer. An awkward situation, right? Fortunately, it can be avoided.
How to discreetly read messages in any services
The most obvious option is to view new messages right in the notification panel of your mobile device without opening the dialog itself. Thus, you can read at least short remarks of your interlocutors.
On iOS, swiping left over a message in the panel and tapping View will reveal even more text that might not fit in the preview. Many Android devices offer a similar feature. But if the message is very long, then the panel will not read it to the end.
There is another universal, but not the most convenient way... After receiving the message, you simply disconnect and read the dialogue in the corresponding program. The interlocutor will not know about reading until you connect the gadget to the Network. This is the only way to secretly view the text of a message, for example, in Instagram Direct, and many other applications, in the settings of which you cannot turn off the read report.
Now let's look at options designed for specific programs and services.
How to discreetly read messages in iMessages
The developers allow you to hide the fact of reading using the settings. If you are using an iPhone or iPad, go to Settings → Messages and turn the toggle next to Read Receipt to colorless. After that, the interlocutors will not see whether you read their messages or not.
To turn off read receipts for, go to "Messages" → "Settings" → "Accounts" and uncheck the box next to the item "Read report".
How to discreetly read Facebook messages
Officially, this option is not provided. But there are solutions from third party developers.
If you are using a browser Google chromethen download Unseen for Facebook. Once installed, it will automatically hide the read status from your interlocutors.
If you prefer Firefox, there is a similar plugin for this browser - Message Seen Disable for Facebook.
Unfortunately in mobile version hiding the read status is not yet possible. So, if you need to ignore someone, you have to use it on the computer.
How to discreetly read WhatsApp messages
For this purpose, there is a special option in the settings of the WhatsApp mobile application. Open the section "Settings" → "Account" (" Account") →" Privacy "(" Confidentiality ") and turn off the" Read reports "toggle switch. After that, the messenger will stop marking messages with blue checkmarks.
This setting is not available on the desktop version of WhatsApp. But if you use it in mobile application, then the changes will take effect on the computer.
How to discreetly read messages on Viber
In this popular messenger, you can also turn off viewing reports right in the official mobile client. To do this, go to the "Settings" → "Privacy" menu and disable the "Viewed" option.
This setting is not available on desktop Viber. But if you use it in a mobile application, then the changes will take effect on the computer.
How to discreetly read messages on VKontakte
There are no standard functions for this. But you can try workarounds.
An alternative VKontakte client Kate Mobile is available to Android users. If you enter it using your account and click "Settings" → "Online" → "Close unread", the program will hide the status of messages. Unfortunately, I could not find a client for iOS with the same functionality.
There is also a way to secretly read messages on the VKontakte web version. You can use the link http://vk.com/im?q\u003dday:xxxxxxxx, specifying the digits of the current date in the format DDMMYYYY instead of Xs: for example, 19032018. A window with messages will open, in which you can read them unnoticed by the senders. But keep in mind that developers can close this loophole at any time.
How to discreetly read messages in Outlook
You can turn off browsing reports in Outlook for the web. Go to "Options" → "Mail" → "Message processing" → "Read receipts" and check the "Never send notifications" item. The changes will persist for all Outlook clients.
When sending a message to Vkontakte, we sometimes wait for an answer to it. But it is not known whether the interlocutor has read it or has not yet read it. Unread messages are fairly easy to identify from both your phone and your computer.
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How to find out if my message in VK has been read from a computer.
If you wrote a Vkontakte message to another person and sent it, then it is very easy to find out about the status of its reading. For this, color selection is used, the standard functionality from the VK developers.
Go to your VK messages. You take away unread messages against the background of the rest, they are highlighted in darker than the rest, read messages.
In the example in the image, we see 2 unread messages from list of all dialogs.
Of course, the visibility of such a selection leaves much to be desired, perhaps it would be better to make such a designation of unread messages more contrasting. For example, depending on how the laptop screen is located, such a selection changes from clear, to completely indistinguishable, merging.
In the dialog itself, if you go in, then we will also see a darker, blue highlight around the sent message, if the message has not yet been read. If the message has been read, then there will be no selection and the color will be light, like the rest of the background of the Vkontakte site.
It is not visible whether the message is read or not on Vkontakte.
Depending on the angle from which you look at the monitor screen, your computer or laptop. Highlighting unread messages can be confusing and difficult to distinguish. Just try looking at dialogue from a different angle.
How to see unread messages in VK from the phone.
In the VK application for mobile and in the mobile version, it operates as a rule, messages that are unread are highlighted in a darker color than the rest of the background.
For example, 2 messages are circled in red that have not yet been read.
How to find out who read a message in a Vkontakte conversation.
Again, following the example of Whats App, where checkmarks appear in gray when the message is delivered and change color to green when the message is read. The checkmarks remain grayed out as long as they are unread messages.
In Vkontakte, there is no such function, but if you sent your message, be sure that it will reach when the interlocutor enters the social. network.
Consider an extremely common situation: a certain user writes to you on VK, whom you cannot block, so as not to offend, and at the same time you do not want to correspond with him, but you want to read the messages he writes. But if you read his messages, he will see it. In general, the problem. Therefore, it is not surprising that users are asking how messages can be read discreetly.
The first way
Let's start with a 100% working method. The bottom line is the following - if you type a link to VK with the current date in the address bar, then you will see all messages that were sent to you before the specified date, including unread ones. The point is that these messages will be shown in full, and not in a shortened one, as if you go to the "My Messages" section. See for yourself - in the first example, the sent message is in the "My Messages" section.
As you can see, the difference is obvious. You can read the entire message this way without opening them! It is easy to do this: copy the link vk.com/im?q\u003dday:30092015 into the browser line, just indicate the current date (in the specified link the date is September 30, 2015).
Second way
The second method is not as good as the first, since it does not work in all cases. Its essence is that you must bind an address to your account emailif you didn't manage to do it earlier. Then notifications about letters will come to the mail. In the mail, you will see part of the message, and they will not be considered read until you read them on the VKontakte website or in the mobile application. The only problem is that notifications show only part of the message. By the same principle, you can set up SMS messages that will come to your phone, but this is - payable service and it was created in order to simply notify the user about new notifications.
You can configure alerts in the "My Settings" section, the "Alerts" tab.
It is better to use the first method, it works flawlessly. For now, anyway.
Everyone loves receiving Vkontakte messages, but many users try to view the text anonymously, pretending that the messages have not been read. A person decides on such actions for various reasons. Firstly, he does not want to take part in the correspondence (especially if it is a collective conversation). Secondly, the user does not know what to write at the moment. Thirdly, there is no desire to continue communication with this or that user. Fourthly, it is necessary to pull the response time by choosing a new line of behavior. It is quite possible to read messages in VK and leave them unread. Next, let's figure out how to do this.
Read messages anonymously on a computer
No special applications and no programs are needed. It's pretty simple. You only need to perform the following, sequentially related actions:
1. Log in to the social network;
2. Go to private messages;
3. Place the mouse cursor in the address bar, which you want to clear to the characters im ?. As a result, a link of the following type should come out https://vk.com/im ?;
4. Add q \u003d day: 17122017 to the link to get https://vk.com/im?q\u003dday:17122017. The numbers at the end of the link will indicate the date until which all correspondence messages will be found in the search. The numbers, respectively, choose and enter the ones that you need.
How to read VK messages from the phone so that they remain unread
The second method is suitable only for owners of mobile gadgets that work on operating system Android. You can read notifications that came to Vkontakte through an application called kate mobile... It must be downloaded, installed on mobile deviceto view messages with it. Just before that, in the settings, you need to check the box next to the line "Activate stealth mode". The parameter "close the message unread" is also set there.
Important nuances
Often times, users accidentally click on messages and then regret it. How can you make a notification unread again by returning it to the "sent" status?
In the new design of Vkontakte this function was fixed at the same time as removing the old messages archive tool. Now all deleted messages and notifications will automatically disappear forever, as well as the ability to hide activity in correspondence. In order not to puzzle over how to make the message unread back, you should carefully think about whether or not you want to read a message from a specific person.
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Hello, friends! If you are texting with many people, then the likelihood that you will have unread messages on your page is very high. There may be a lot of them if you decide to wind them up on Vkontakte. You could do it just for the sake of interest, but you did not foresee thousands of hung dialogues.
Let's now figure out how to view all such messages and remove them from your Vkontakte page.
If you are interested, then read the detailed article by clicking on the link.
How to read unread messages in VK
We go in the left menu to "Messages". Then on the right, go to the "Unread" tab.
Even if you have thousands of dialogs, only those in which you have not read the text will be displayed here.
How to remove such messages
In order to remove unread Vkontakte texts so that there is no number with their number next to the corresponding menu item, just click on the dialogue with the user from whom the message is left.
After that, the dialog itself will open, and the message will automatically be marked as read.
How to delete all unread
If you have a lot of new unread in your profile, and you want to delete them, then there are examples on the Internet with a script that will help you quickly do this.
I’ll tell you how you can remove the number with unviewed near the menu item and mark them all as read.
For this we will use free program AutoVK. You can download it from the official website - the address is shown in the screenshot below in the lower right corner.
Install the program and go to it. Then in the fields "Login" and "Password" enter your data from the Vkontakte page and click "Authorization".
After that click on the "Messages" button.
Wait for the program to finish, and a window with the text "Face read" appears.
Now there are no numbers near the "Messages" menu item on the left side, and all of them are shown read on your page.
For those who are not satisfied with just marking messages as read, and it is necessary to delete unread Vkontakte dialogs, I suggest the following option. It is suitable if you have clocked a lot of messages and now there are thousands of new dialogues in your account, since not a specific one will be deleted, but the entire correspondence as a whole.
To do this, you need to install the Instrumentum extension to google browser Chrome. You can find it in the Chrome Web Store. After installation, an extension button will appear to the right of the browser address bar.
Go to your Vkontakte profile and click on this button. Then log in to the extension, giving it access to your VK page.
Now click on the extension button again and select "My Page".
Put a marker opposite the item "Delete all dialogs except:". A list of users with whom you have exchanged will appear. Hold down the Ctrl key on your keyboard and select with the mouse those people whose dialogs you DO NOT WANT to delete.
When you have selected all the dialogs that you want to leave in your profile, click the "Delete dialogs" button.
Wait for the extension to finish removing.
I think you managed to get rid of all unread messages on your Vkontakte page. If you know any other options, write about them in the comments.