

We did 11 semi-structured interviews to initially find out the patterns of behaviour, feelings and attitudes surrounding Read Receipts. So we went on a mission to find out more. Yet my research parter Teis and I could not find any academic research on the feature. At least we know this anecdotally - and there are blogs and articles all over the net complaining about the feature. Turning off receipts on MAC is done in a similar fashion.Read receipts, such as that familiar blue double-tick on WhatsApp or timestamp on iMessage, are the object of a lot of frustration.If read receipts are missing, you can obviously re-instate them by using the Privacy tab as shown above.Disabling your outgoing read receipts will also turn off incoming receipts, so you’ll not be able to tell if someone read chats you wrote.Move the Read Receipts slider to the left.

Login to Microsoft Teams, if you haven’t done it yet.Here is a simple way to ensure that read receipts won’t be available to your colleagues: By doing that, you are telling your colleagues know that you are not available, and offer to route the communication to offline channels such as email, which you can respond at your leisure. Before addressing your specific question, i wanted to remind everyone working heavily on Teams the very handy feature allowing you to set your own Microsoft Teams custom status. So here’s my question: is there a way to remove the read receipts from Teams? Remove Teams read receipts on chat The thing is that senders of those messages are able to tell if i read their messages as the “eye icon” read notice is displayed next to their messages in Teams chat. As i am quite swamped with work (who isn’t?) i read through the chat notifications, but not able to process most. As a marketing coordinator, i get several dozens of chat messages on a daily basis. My organization is a pretty heavy user of Microsoft Teams in several departments: purchasing, marketing, sales and finance.
