How to check someone has read your email or not

May 3, 2024

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However, text message replies usually are faster, especially if you send an email to apply for a job or sent any important email. This waiting period becomes a bit simpler to deal with using Gmail’s read receipts, you can find out if the person you emailed has opened and read your message.

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This method is made easy in messaging apps like WhatsApp in which you can see ticks that indicate your message has been delivered and when the message has been read blue ticks show however is there a similar thing for email? Unluckily not, yet there are some ways. You can know who has seen your message or not.

There are two main ways to allow read receipts in Gmail, a free method and a paid method.

Using the paid method you get directly from Gmail but the free method relies on third-party extensions and also adds signatures to your emails.

Both methods only function on the desktop version of Gmail.

Paid Method:

You can only use the paid method if you have a Google Workspace subscription, also known as a G-Suite account. Even so, your workspace organization might restrict read receipts within your organization. Yet if not, then how to check if your emails are being read.

How to Check If Your Email Was Read

When you are writing a new email, in typing click the three-dot menu near the bottom right corner tapping those dots will open a menu. Then click “Request read receipt,” but also keep it in mind that unlike chatting apps, this is a consent-based system. Therefore, you will get a notification when the recipient approves your request will you be notified when they read your emails. If they will not approve, they will keep getting reminders for approval while you won’t know if they read the email or not.

Free Method

The free method, as described earlier depends on the third-party extensions. Lots of extensions notify you when someone reads your emails like Gmelius, Mailtrack, and Boomerang. Yet you did not pay most of them will leave a mandatory signature on your email. The majority of these extensions are working only on Gmail when you are using a computer, not on phones or tablets.

How to Check If Your Email Was Read in mailtrack

Mailtrack is the best extension in the list, it not only works on the desktop but also on smartphones, and non-workspace Gmail accounts. This extension puts a signature on your email too, but you can pay $4.99 to remove it and get unlimited read receipts.

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