Skype is updated with a much-requested improvement: message read confirmation arrives

Maybe for many users, at least the youngest, messaging applications do not go beyond the green color of WhatsApp or the blue color of Telegram and Facebook Messenger. It is true that they are the best known but not the only ones. A good example might be Microsoft Skype

As if from an old rocker who refuses to retire and continues to release records to the market, Skype, one of Microsoft's most classic applications, continues to add improvements thanks to new releases And this time it does so with an improvement highly demanded by users that was rarely present yet.

Notice to read… how in WhatsApp

This is the message read notice, something similar to WhatsApp's blue double _check_ and oddly enough, it was not a idea introduced by the company now owned by Mark Zuckerberg.

This functionality is available in version 8.26.76, only accessible to users who are already testing the Insider version of Skype With In her conversations, both individual and group (as long as they do not have more than 20 users), they will have access to a read notification that will indicate if that person has seen the message.

To do this, the avatar of the user in question will be used, which will appear below the message when the person has read it. It is a very useful function but, as happened with the blue double _check_ of WahtsApp, it can be disabled.

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To do this we must go through the route Settings > Privacy to the section that deactivates this option. They will not be able to know when we have seen the message, but be careful, because we will not be able to access that information regarding other users either."

The new functionality is available to insider users of the app and hopefully it won't take long to reach the general app that can be downloaded from the Microsoft Store by everyone else.

Source | Skype In Xataka Windows | Some users can try the latest version of Skype and there is no need to be part of the Microsoft Insider Program