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WhatsApp's New Update Just Made It Easier To See Who's Ignoring Your Messages

You can now scan through all of your silent friends at once.

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If you're one of those people who constantly check the ticks on your WhatsApp messages, this could be music to your ears!

WhatsApp has added a new feature, which allows people to see the blue and grey ticks on the chat page, without clicking into individual threads

That means those ticks, which indicate whether or not a message has been received and read, all be viewed at once in the chat list. The update is found in the latest version of WhatsApp.

Previously, users would have to click into a message to check what its status was through a series of ticks

WhatsApp communicates whether a message has been read through a series of ticks: one means that the message has sent, two grey ones mean that it’s arrived on the recipient’s phone, and two blue ticks means that the recipient has read it.

independent.co.uk

Of course, if users have already turned off the read receipts, only the grey ticks will show

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If you've always wanted to turn off the read receipts, here's how:

Did you know you could use WhatsApp on your computer?

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