Re: Text Messaging when Recipient's Phone is Turned Off
SuzyQ
Community Leader
Community Leader

bashley00 wrote:

With my experience the text does not show a green check until the message is actually delivered to the phone. So, if the person has their phone off it has no way to get to their phone. When they do turn their phone back on, the green check will show up as soon as it is delivered. Until the phone is turned back on, the green arrow will continue to show. My phone shows delivery times as well, so I can see when I sent the message and when it was actually delivered. Hope that helps!


My experience is giving me a different interpretation of the green check marks and green arrows.  In looking at my past sent messages, everything with a green checkmark is to a Verizon number, and I can see sent and received times (which nearly always is the SAME time, whether the message was opened immediately or not).  All the messages with the green arrow are out of network messages, and only show a sent time, no delivered time.  So I can see that they were successfully sent, but I have no idea if they ever got to  the recipient's phone, except that they responded to it.

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