In plain English
The key idea is that it tells whether the recipient has opened the message. It is a notice about opening, not just about the message arriving.
In context
Here, "read receipt" refers to the messaging setting or indicator concerned with notification that a received message has been opened by the person who got it.
- Situation
- Using messages, follows, connections, groups, communities, and interaction controls
- What it communicates
- Names the messaging setting or indicator related to opened messages.
Meaning limits
By itself, the term does not say when the message was opened or anything else about what happened after that opening.
Examples
“I got a read receipt after she opened the message, even though it had arrived hours earlier.”
“The chat showed a read receipt under my last message.”