Turn Off or On Read Receipts in WhatsApp on HTC One M8

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Video: Turn Off or On Read Receipts in WhatsApp on HTC One M8

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Hello! Welcome to VisiHow and to the series of videos on how to use WhatsApp on the HTC One M8! In this video, we are going to show you how to turn on and off read receipts.

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   To begin, we turn the phone on by pressing the power button located on the top of the phone

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   Once the phone has been activated, we will see the lock screen.

   

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   To unlock the phone, we swipe the screen upwards

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   Once the phone has been unlocked, we will see the home screen. There will be icons at the bottom. It is one of the icons that we need to access now, as we need to open up the applications folder.

   

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   To open up the applications folder, we need to tap the icon located at the bottom of the home screen

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   The icon is in the middle and has a grid made of white dots. Tapping the icon will open up the applications folder.

   

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   In the applications folder, we need to find the WhatsApp icon

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   The icon is a green speech bubble with a white telephone inside. Underneath the icon, there is "WhatsApp". The WhatsApp application location may vary in the application folder; therefore, we need to find it.

   

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   Once we have found it, we tap it to enter the application

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   We need to tap the icon in the top right-hand corner of the screen

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   The icon has three small white dots in a vertical line. Tapping the icon will open up a menu.

   

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   We need to tap the option at the bottom, "Settings"

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   In the "Settings" menu, we need to tap the "Account" option

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   In the "Account" menu, we need to tap the word "Privacy"

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    We scroll down

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    There will be the "Read receipts" option. There will be a check in the box, indicating that the option is activated. What is this option? When someone reads our message in a chat, we see checks at the bottom of the message, indicating that it has been read. We know that someone has read our message. This can be good and bad because if he does not reply, we will know that he will have read it. We might wonder why the person does not reply afterwards. It is also very useful because we know that the person has read and seen our message. As WhatsApp says, "If you turn off read receipts, you won't be able to see read receipts from other people. Read receipts are always sent for group chats." This option is for our read receipts.

    

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    If we want to turn off the "Read receipts" option, we just tap the box

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    The box will be empty, which means that the option will have been deactivated.

    

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    If we want to turn on the "Read receipts" option, we just tap the box

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    The option will be activated.

    

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This concludes the tutorial on how to turn on and off read receipts in WhatsApp on the HTC One M8. If you have any questions, comments, or queries regarding this video or about the process that we have witnessed in this video, then please leave them in the comment section below. We shall answer them for you.

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