Direct Messages or DMs are a popular feature on Instagram that allows you to chat with friends, share photos and videos and much more. Instagram is the main messaging app for many people. However, it ...

After months of speculation about the feature being released, Meta-owned social media platform Instagram will now officially let its users turn off read receipts. Unlike WhatsApp, Instagram hasn’t ...

When you send a text message, you might not expect a reply right away. But do your expectations change when you know that your text has been read? On iPhone or Android phones, visual cues in iMessage ...

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We have come a long way since the early days of text messaging, when you had limited characters, you couldn't send emojis, or even know when the other person had opened the message. Read receipts have ...