Skype Finally Rolls Out Read Receipts Feature
- July 08, 2018
- TECHNOLOGY
In today’s
messaging world, many new messaging and free calling apps have been launched.
Skype is one of the popular video, audio and messaging platforms. An eminent
feature of read receipts which enables the users to understand whether the
message has been read by the receipent or not is new addition to the Skype. The
Skype users can now enable the read receipts feature when any message is sent
by the user.
Skype is one of the
popular apps launched by Microsoft which has acquired billion dollars revenue
in 2011. Many exciting features like GIF’s, emoticons along with end-to-end
security have been introduced by Microsoft to enhance the user’s experience.
Now, the read receipts feature which is commonly seen in WhatsApp, Facebook
Messenger and others is also rolling out to Skype. The company has already
started testing this feature and soon read receipts will roll out to all the
skype users.
Read receipts
feature will be seen by the users when they install latest Skype version.
However, this feature will work in group conversation only for upto 20 users.
Also, if some users from the group do not have the latest Skype version
installed then they will not receive read receipts. Thus, it is necessary for
the users to install the latest preview build version of this app.
The read receipts
icon shown when message is read by any user will be is similar to the one seen
on Facebook Messenger. A circular icon with the user’s image who has read the message
will be shown on the app. However, the users who don’t want to enable read
receipts can do so by simply turning off this feature. The users can also
temporarily disable this feature and later on they can enable the same.
The working of this
feature is similar to all other messaging platform. If some user disables this
feature then they won’t be able to see other users who have read their message
which is a fair trade off. Read receipts feature will enhance the users
messaging task as they will know the person to whom they are messaging is
online. The users can even identify the people who are deliberately ignoring
their messages.