How To See Who Has Read Your Whatsapp Message

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To see who has read your WhatsApp message and when has he read it, you need to open the chat of the user on the WhatsApp application and then click and hold the message. 

Next, click on the three dots icon and then click on Info. You’ll be taken to the Message Info page. On the page, you’ll find the Seen and Delivered header. 

Under it, you’ll be able to see the timings when the message was seen and delivered to the user. If it shows – under Seen header it means that the person has not played it yet. 

To check if your voice note is played or not on WhatsApp, you need to click and hold the voice note. Then click on the three dots icon and then click on Info. 

On the Message info page, you’ll be able to see the Played header under which you’ll find the time when it was played. 

If it doesn’t show the time below Played, it means the user has not played it yet. 

For group messages on WhatsApp, you can check who has read the message you’ve sent in the group and who is yet to be read. 

Click and hold the message in the group, then click on the three dots icon and then click on Info. 

On the next page, under the Read by header, you’ll find the names of members who have read it. 

Under the Delivered to the header, you’ll find the names of users who have not read it yet. 

Below the names, you’ll see the time when the message was delivered or seen. 

How To see who has read your WhatsApp message:

Follow the below steps:

Step 1: Open Chat and Tap & Hold on Message

If you want to know whether your chat has been read by the user to whom you’ve sent it, you need to see the info of the message that you’ve sent. WhatsApp messages when sent to anybody show a blue tick mark beside it when the message is read by the user. Here’s how you can check the timing or if it’s read by the user or not. 

You need to open the WhatsApp application. Then, from the chat list, open the chat of the user. You’ll be able to see all the messages you’ve sent to the person. To see if it’s read or not, you need to click and hold the message. 

Hold on Message

Step 2: Tap on ‘Info’

After clicking and holding the message, you’ll find that a few options have appeared at the top of the chat screen. You need to click on the three dots icon and then you’ll be able to see two options in a box. You need to click on Info from the options and it will take you to the next page. 

Tap on 'Info'

Step 3: Find ‘Read’ & ‘Delivered’ Time

On the next page, you’ll be able to see the selected message and below that, you’ll see the Read and then the Delivered header. Under the Read header, you’ll be able to see the time when that particular message has been read by the user and under the Delivered header, you’ll be able to see the time when the message has been delivered to the user. 

If you don’t find any time below the Read header but it is just showing – instead, it means that that person has not read the message yet. If there’s no time below Delivered, it means that the message has not been delivered to the user yet. 

Find 'Read' & 'Delivered' Time

How To see who has read your WhatsApp Voice message:

Follow the below steps:

Step 1: Open Chat and Tap & Hold on Message

When you send a voice note to somebody on WhatsApp, you can check if the user has read or played your voice note. If it shows a blue tick mark next to the voice note, it only means that the message has been seen by the user. But you can’t be sure that he has played it from seeing the blue tick marks. However, if you check the info of the voice note, you’ll be able to get to know the timing or if it has been played or not. 

Open Chat and Tap

Here’s how you need to check it. You have to open the WhatsApp application and then open the chat of the user from the chat list. Next, you need to click and hold the voice note for two seconds. 

Step 2: Tap on ‘Info’

After clicking and holding the voice note, you need to look at the top right corner of the screen. There you’ll find a three dots icon placed vertically. Click on the three dots icon and then it will show you two options. From the options, you need to click on the first one i.e Info. You’ll be taken to the next page. 

Tap on 'Info' on whatsapp

Step 3: Find ‘Seen’ & ‘Delivered’ Time & ‘Played’

After clicking on Info, you’ll be taken to the Message info page. You’ll be able to see three headers: Played, Seen, and Delivered. To see the time when your voice note is being played, you need to check the time displayed under the Played header. You can see when the message was seen and delivered by seeing the time under the Seen and Delivered header.

Find 'Seen' & 'Delivered' Time & 'Played'

If it shows the – symbol under Played header, it means that the person has not yet played the voice note. But if there’s a time under the Seen header but there’s no time under the Played header,  then it means that the user has seen the voice note but has not played it yet. 

How To see who has read your WhatsApp Group message:

Follow the steps below:

Step 1: Open Group and Tap & Hold on Your Message

When you send messages in groups, it only shows blue tick marks next to the message if it’s read by all. Even if it shows two gray marks then it means that the message has been delivered to all the users in the group.

Hold on Your Message group

However, you can check which members have read your message. Seeing that, you will be able to understand who is still left to read it. 

Here’s how you can check who has read your message in a WhatsApp group.

Open the WhatsApp application and then from the chat list open the group. Next, you need to click and hold the message sent by you. 

Step 2: Tap on ‘Info’

After clicking and holding the message, you need to click on the three dots icon at the top right corner. Next, you’ll need to click on the Info option from the box and you’ll be taken to the Message info page where you’ll need to find who has read the messages and who is yet to be read. 

Tap on 'Info' on group

Step 3: Find ‘SEEN BY’ & ‘DELIVERED To’ Time

When a message is sent to a WhatsApp group, it gets delivered to all the members of the group within a few minutes. But it might not be read by all the members at the same time which is why you need to check who has read it. 

On the Message info page, you’ll find the header Read by under which you’ll see all the names of the members who have read the message. Below the names, you’ll find the time when the message was seen by that user. 

Under it, you’ll find the Delivered to header, where you’ll find the names of those members to whom the message has been delivered but have not read it yet. Below the names, you’ll find the time when the message was delivered. 

Find 'SEEN BY' & 'DELIVERED To' Time on group

If you see that there’s no Delivered to header, it means that all the members have read the messages. But if you don’t find Read by header, it means that no one has read it yet. 

Frequently Asked Questions:

1. Can I Read Someone’s Voice Message Without getting played alert?

Yes, you can do that by using a trick. The trick is to send the voice note to somebody else on WhatsApp without playing it and then hear the voice note from the chat of the user whom you’re sending it to. By doing this, you would not send the play alert to the user who has sent you the voice note and he would not know that you’ve played it. 

2. Can I see Someone’s Messages without being seen?

If you want to see the message without getting online, you need to read the messages from the notification without actually opening the app. You can also keep the read receipts off and then before opening WhatsApp to read the message, turn on the airplane mode to appear offline. You can also use the MOD apps of WhatsApp to read messages without being seen.

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