What Do the WhatsApp Ticks Mean? How to Disable WhatsApp Ticks?

The communication between people is greatly enhanced today, and WhatsApp becomes much more popular than ever before. Instead of using your prepaid text allowance, WhatsApp provides a free access that enables people to chat online through reliable Internet connectivity.

Is my message sent successfully? Has he/she read my messages? For people to know about the status of the messages they have sent accurately, WhatsApp adopts the little ticks to reveal an instant information. Through this post, you can figure out their exact meanings.

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Part 1. What Do the WhatsApp Ticks Mean?

WhatsApp uses three types of ticks to indicate the status of the sent messages, helping users to make sure whether the messages are successfully sent or whether they have been read by the other side.

The three types of WhatsApp ticks include:

A single gray tick

A single gray tick means that your message has been sent to the recipient. But it doesn't mean that it is successfully delivered.

Although the message is successfully sent, it may fail to be delivered due to certain situations.

* The recipient has turned his/her device off.
* The network connectivity that the recipient's device connects to is not reliable.
* You are blocked by the recipient.
* WhatsApp has appeared any internal error.

Double gray ticks

As a single gray tick means that the message has been sent, the double gray ticks stand for the next step of it. It reveals that the message has been successfully delivered to the recipient's phone. You only need to wait for your recipient to read the message.

Double blue ticks

When your recipient reads the message, the two gray ticks would turn into two blue ticks. This is also a kind of read receipt that let people know that their recipients have got the words.

If the two gray ticks keep staying gray and not turning into blue color, that may mean:

* Your recipient hasn't open WhatsApp to access the message for reading.
* There may be a bad network connection that prevents the recipient to read the message.
* The recipient has turned off the read receipts so that the blue ticks won't show up.

And yes. For those who want to protect the privacy of themselves, selecting to turn off the read receipts is a good choice. So how can we turn it off? Now move to the next part.

Part 2. Simple Steps to Disable WhatsApp Ticks on iPhone/Android

Sometimes when you are too busy and have no time to reply your friends' WhatsApp messages, you don’t want them to know that you try to ignore them after reading. Help to deal with this embarrassing situation, WhatsApp optimizes its functionality and enables people to turn off the blue ticks to hide their WhatsApp status.

Therefore, to figure out this kind of related problems, you can try to disable the WhatsApp ticks simply by yourself. Here are the simple steps on how to disable WhatsApp ticks on iPhone/Android.

On iPhone

STEP 1. Launch WhatsApp in iPhone and switch to the Settings module.

STEP 2. Go to Account > Privacy.

STEP 3. Scroll down and find "Read Receipts" option. Toggle it off to disable the blue sticks on WhatsApp.

On Android

STEP 1. Open WhatsApp on Android. Then in the home page, click on the three-dot icon in the upper-right corner. Then go to Settings from the pull-down menu.
STEP 2. Turn to Account > Privacy, which is the same as the step on iPhone.
STEP 3. Find "Read Receipts" option, then disable it. Then all is done.

By disabling the WhatsApp ticks, your recipients would not know whether you have read their messages already or not. This can help to prevent some awkward situations from happening. It can also let you protect your own privacy on WhatsApp to some extent.

Hope this trick can help you figure out your problem!