Does Bumble offer a feature that will let you know when someone has read your message in secret? Yes and no, I suppose, but largely no. Let’s break it down since it’s a little more complicated than that.
Does Bumble Have Read Receipts?
Read receipts are a common feature of messaging and dating apps that let users know when their messages have been delivered and read. This is a useful feature because it hints at how to carry on a conversation with them without saying anything.
For instance, it’s frequently a hint that someone doesn’t want to continue the conversation if you discover that they left you on read. This may be for a variety of reasons, but it’s still a strong indication to either shift the subject or save the topic for another time.
Unfortunately, bumble lacks this capability, so you won’t be able to determine whether or not your message was opened. This applies on both ends; if you open a message, the person who sent it to you won’t know.
Additionally, it doesn’t notify the user when a snapshot of a chat is taken. Bumble made two decisions, each of which has pros and cons. One benefit is that you won’t risk offending them by opening the message and responding afterwards.
You won’t have to worry if you unintentionally open a message that you don’t want to reply to quite yet, which is another benefit. On the flip hand, if you don’t get a response, you can never be sure if you did anything incorrectly, they aren’t interested, or they aren’t using their phone right now.
Users aren’t fully left in the dark, despite how aggravating this can be; you can still see when your message was sent and delivered. Your message will be sent once it has reached the Bumble servers but not the recipient’s device.
When it is delivered, it has successfully reached the recipient’s device. To determine whether to text again or not, you must decide for yourself because the app won’t let you know when someone clicks on the notice and reads your message.
How to Turn on Read Receipts on Bumble
Unfortunately, because Bumble does not support this functionality, you cannot enable read recipients. The only alert that will be provided to both parties is when a text message is sent and received.
After matching, you can move the chat to another app that supports this feature if you’d like.
Examples include iMessages, Snapchat, and Instagram (if you both have an Apple device). Don’t be hesitant to ask; it’s customary to include your matches on other sites.
Can Someone See When You Read Their Bumble Message
No, they won’t receive any notification when you read their message on Bumble. The only notification they will receive when sending a message is that it was delivered to your account and went through.
1. If You Start Typing Then Stop
When one of you begins to type in a Bumble discussion, a notification will appear for the other person letting them know you are presently typing. If they see this, it suggests they are aware that you have read the letter. They will be aware that you opened the message and chose not to react for whatever reason if you stop typing and don’t send any messages.
To avoid this, just don t type anything when you open the message. Just be aware that, whether or not it’s true, people may assume you don’t want to talk to them if you don’t respond to their messages. You could reply later and apologize by telling them you were busy, or just couldn t reply at the time.
2. If You Update Your Profile They ll Know You ve Been Active on the App
If you re currently not trying to reply to someone without them knowing, you ll have to avoid a few more things than just typing in the chat.
For example, if you change something in your profile, whether that be your profile picture, bios or pictures, if they notice they ll know you aren t opening their message for whatever reason. Again, this could send a bad message, so unless you are doing this on purpose I d avoid changing your public bumble profile in any way.
3. If You Reply to Them on Other Platforms
If you reply to them on other chatting platforms, they will, of course, know you ve been on your phone and haven t opened their Bumble messages. This probably isn t that big of a deal since you re still talking with this person, but be cautious. If you just don t want to use Bumble chat anymore, you could try just bringing the topic to the platform of your choice.
4. If You Were Messaging Frequently and Too Much Time Has Passed
If the two of you were messaging back and forth often and all of a sudden you stopped replying for an abnormal amount of time, they ll probably know something s up.
I d say if you don t reply for over 8 hours they ll know, as if you don t reply for 8 hours you may have just been sleeping. However anything over that, means to the other person, that you ve probably woken up and still didn t reply.
What Does Delivered Mean on Bumble?
Delivered means your message was successfully sent to the recipients phone. It doesn t mean anything more than that; it doesn t mean they ve opened your message or have seen it, it simply means your message went through successfully.
Do Audio Messages on Bumble Have Read Receipts?
No. Just like normal text messages on WhatsApp, audio calls do not have read receipts. So, if you send an audio message, you ll not be notified when they open, or play, your message. Currently there is no way to turn on read recipients; you will only be notified when your message is sent and delivered.
Do Pictures or Videos on Bumble have Read Receipts?
On Bumble, every kind of message will only show when the text is sent and received. It will not show when it s been opened or read. This goes for text messages, audio messages, as well as videos and pictures.
Does Bumble Show When You re on the App?
Along with read receipts, Bumble does not show if you re online or not. Many social media apps, like Instagram, will show a green dot on your picture in the chat when you re on the app.
Some apps, like Snapchat, will show when you re in the chat, but not when you re on the app itself.
Bumble does not do either of these things, so you can use the app all you want, and unless you change your profile or reply to messages, none of your matches will have any idea you re even using the app, let alone looking at the chat.
How Can I Know If Someone on Bumble is Ignoring Me?
A clever way to know if someone is ignoring you is to call them. When you match with someone, along with being able to chat with them, you ll also be able to voice and video call by pressing one of the buttons at the top right of the chat.
If you call them, and it only rings for a few seconds before it stops, it s likely they themselves are pressing decline on the call.
Unless they take the time to wait until the call stops ringing by itself, it s likely they re just not able to reach you right now, or they just can t use their phone.
Don t stress too much about it, if they re interested they ll get back to you. If they don t get back within a day, well it was probably just never meant to be.
It s best to just move on to someone else instead of wasting your time with someone who s not interested in returning your texts or calls. Remember, there s plenty of fish in the sea.
Can You Tell If Someone Read Your Bumble Message?
Unfortunately, it s impossible to tell if someone has read your message on Bumble. Bumble doesn t provide read receipts to its users so trying to look for checkmarks or a seen notification when you ve sent a message to see if the other person has read it is a waste of your time.
To check if someone has read your Bumble message, you ll need to look for clues because Bumble themselves aren t going to reveal it to you.
1. Checking Their Location
Since there s no read receipts feature to get double checkmarks read receipts to know when someone has read your message, then you can use another method that involves knowing the recipient s location.
Knowing your match s location won t exactly tell you if your message was read, but it can tip you off that they ve been on it recently, at least long enough to use it.
Let s say you use Bumble every morning at your favorite coffee shop and that s where you made your match, and let s say they were at home when the match was made. When it was, you two were, say, 10 miles apart.
When you next fire up the Bumble app and check their profile, you can see if their location was updated recently; Bumble only updates your location if you use it, no in real time.
How does that help? Well, if you sign on one day, in the same location, and they re suddenly 20 miles away or 5 miles away, they used Bumble recently.
In other words, they were online and there s a chance they ignored your message or they were just too busy. It s too ambiguous to know, but it s still an indirect way of knowing they were online at least at some point after your message was sent.
2. Make Note of their Profile Page
If you take a screenshot of their profile page and then take another picture, say, a day or two later and noticed new pictures or their bio was changed, then obviously they were online at some point.
Whether or not they were ignoring your messages or they read them and chose not to respond is, well, difficult to know for certain.
3. What about Third-Party Services?
No such service is available. There does exist some services that can give you their most recent active status, but something like a read receipt isn t possible. That kind of information would have to involve breaching the privacy of someone s messages, an act that is clearly very illegal.
Now, look, if you re going this far to be some kind of creepy investigator, then you re probably doing it for all the wrong reasons. It s best to just take the rejection with grace and move onto the next possible match.
You have no idea what s going on on the other side. They could be busy or nervous or even scared to move forward. Perhaps sending them a GIF to break the ice further is what s needed.
But here s something to chew on: even if they did ultimately reject you, they still found something in you that matched you two together. Someone still found something desirable enough in you that made the connection possible in the first place.
Conclusion
As of writing this article, read receipts are unsupported entirely for Bumble chats. They can not be turned on for any kind of message, including pictures and videos.
The only notification you ll be given after sending a message is for when the message was delivered to their phone. The reason for this is unknown, as most apps at least give you the option to turn this setting on.
If read receipts are a need for you or the recipient, there are other apps you can use for chatting. We recommend Facebook messenger, Snapchat, Instagram, WhatsApp and iMessage for iOS.
