read recipients disable in Microsoft Teams chat

Want to know if people have read or seen messages you sent?

Then use read recipients. When users read your message the confirmation appears Seen  .

Otherwise, you will only see a confirmation that your message has been sent  .

Activate read confirmation through the Microsoft Teams admin center

read recipients disabling can only be done by a global administrator. This person is responsible for the configuration of the Teams organization.

Within the Global policy it is possible to make various adjustments. A complete overview below.

Navigate to: https://admin.teams.microsoft.com/policies/messaging
Open the global Policy - Read receipts and adjust to 'turned off for everyone'

Detailed view of read receipts

Best can set up teams well from the get-go. You can read all about it in this article. Microsoft also built a project plan that you can activate through the admin center.