WeChat official reiterates that it will not implement a "read" function.

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07/08/2025
On August 7th, WeChat officially reiterated that there has never been a "read" feature on WeChat from the beginning, and there will not be one in the future. Regarding the consideration of not implementing a "read" status on WeChat, Tencent's director of public relations, Zhang Jun, expressed in a podcast program that WeChat's existence is not to increase social pressure for everyone. "I think this may have been the thing that everyone thought about the most at the beginning."