In general, i. Message won’t say delivered if the recipient’s phone is off. However, in some particular cases, it might say delivered. Let’s take a closer look. A couple of conditions need to be met for i. Message to be delivered to the recipient’s phone. The phone needs to be turned on., i Message needs to be enabled.
By default they will simply wait for the phone to be turned back on, and then they will be delivered. While the phone is off that message will wait on Apple’s servers. You can i. Message them when they have Wi-Fi, but your messages will continue to send if they leave that coverage, just as SMS messages instead. Will an i. Message eventually deliver?
It will not. Delivered means the message is now on the recipients device. If the recipient’s is off/not connected to the internet, the i. Message will not reach their device and will not register as delivered.
What does delivered mean on iMessage?
Delivered means the message is now on the recipients device. If the recipient’s is off/not connected to the internet, the i. Message will not reach their device and will not register as delivered.
This is what our research found. the Answer: NO but there’s a caveat!, an i Message will only show up as “Delivered” if it has been successfully delivered to at least one of the recipient’s devices that are enabled for i, and message. So, if the text recipient is only using their i. Phone and had no other devices setup for i. Message, like an i. Pad or Mac computer,.
Why is my iMessage not being delivered to the recipient?
If the recipient’s is off/not connected to the internet, the i. Message will not reach their device and will not register as delivered .
The next thing we wondered was, why is my iMessage not showing as delivered?
One answer is,, actually, i Message not saying “ Delivered” simply means the messages has not yet been successfully delivered to the recipient’s device due to some reasons. Reasons could be: their phone not having available Wi-Fi or cellular data networks, they have their i. Phone off or on Do Not Disturb mode, etc.
What happens when you send an iMessage message to someone else?
If the other person has other devices with i. Message enabled, one of those will receive the message before the i. Phone and the sender will see the status “delivered ”. If the i. Phone is the only device, the message will only show delivered when the phone has been switched on again and it has access to the Internet.