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by maxkiener 4251 days ago
How about the first checkmark indicates delivery and the second "read". do you guys care about the "it left the phone" state?
2 comments

Personally "It left the phone" state is very important to me, esp., when I am travelling and network connectivity is intermittent.

Also "Message Read" is a very ambiguous state according to me - If the content of a message is read from the notification drop down, but user never opened whatsapp to read it - is it read, or not ?

Definitely. You want confirmation it got to someplace same until delivered to the recipient. 1 check for got to server, 1 check for delivered to recipient device, and then "Read" underneath the furthest part of the conversation that has been read. Or I'm just crazy and niche.
I'd say: clock symbol till it left the phone, one checkmark for delivered, another one for read.
Perfect!