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Credit: Kaspars Grinvalds - Shutterstock Ignorance is bliss. Accountability isn’t. If you’re the sort of person who likes to take their own sweet time to reply to messages, you probably don’t want the pressure of read receipts hanging over your head.Read receipts are an integrated part of every popular messaging platform. When you (or someone else) reads a message, you get that double-tick or timestamp. It’s good to know that the message was delivered, and read. But what if you’re on the other side?You can take yourself out of this game by disabling read receipts on all popular messaging services. We’ll walk you through the steps below.Note: Disabling read receipts works both ways. Once disabled, you often won’t be able to see when your messages are delivered and read either. WhatsAppLet’s start with the most popular messaging platform on the planet: Go to Settings > Account > Privacy and disable “Read Receipts.” iMessageOn your iPhone, you can disable read receipts for iMessage from the Settings app. Go to Settings > Messages and disable the “Read Receipts” option.Google MessengerOn the Android side, the steps are slightly different. Open the Google Messenger app on your Android smartphone, and tap the three-dotted Menu button in the top-right. Go to Settings > Chat Features and disable the “Send Read Receipts” option.LinkedInLinkedIn lets you disable both read receipts and the typing indicator, though the steps are different for the website, and the mobile apps. On the website, click your Profile icon and go to Settings & Privacy. Go to Communications > Messaging Experience and click the “Change” button next to the Read receipts and typing indicators option. Here, you can disable the feature.On the mobile app, go to Profile > Settings > Communications > Messaging Experience > Read receipts and typing indicators, and disable the feature.SignalIn the Signal app, tap your Profile icon, go to Settings > Privacy and disable the “Read Receipts” option.Microsoft TeamsWant to stop your co-workers from knowing the exact second you’ve read a message in the Microsoft Teams app? Click your Profile icon from the toolbar and go to “Settings.” From the “Privacy” section, disable the “Read Receipts” feature.What to do if there’s no option to turn off read receipts? (Instagram, Facebook Messenger, Telegram)Not every popular messaging app supports this feature. Instagram, Facebook Messenger, and Telegram don’t give you the option to disable read receipts. But there’s a workaround you can use to read messages without alerting the sender—by using airplane mode. Enable airplane mode on your device, then open the app, and read the message. While you’re in airplane mode, the person won’t know you have read it. Khamosh Pathak Khamosh Pathak is freelancer tech journalist with over 13 years

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Column. This is because Spanner's read interfacedoesn't support the ability to join an index with a data table to look up valuesthat are not stored in the index.Create an alternate definition of AlbumsByAlbumTitle that stores a copy ofMarketingBudget in the index.On the command line GoogleSQL gcloud spanner databases ddl update example-db --instance=test-instance ` --ddl='CREATE INDEX AlbumsByAlbumTitle2 ON Albums(AlbumTitle) STORING (MarketingBudget) PostgreSQL gcloud spanner databases ddl update example-db --instance=test-instance ` --ddl='CREATE INDEX AlbumsByAlbumTitle2 ON Albums(AlbumTitle) INCLUDE (MarketingBudget)Adding an index can take a few minutes. After the index is added, you shouldsee:Schema updating...done.Using the Spanner client library for C#Use CreateDdlCommand()to add an index with a STORING clause: Run the sample using the addStoringIndex command.dotnet run addStoringIndex $env:GOOGLE_PROJECT_ID test-instance example-dbYou should see:Added the AlbumsByAlbumTitle2 index.Now you can execute a read that fetches all AlbumId, AlbumTitle, andMarketingBudget columns from the AlbumsByAlbumTitle2 index:Read data using the storing index you created by executing a query thatexplicitly specifies the index: Run the sample using the queryDataWithStoringIndex command.dotnet run queryDataWithStoringIndex $env:GOOGLE_PROJECT_ID test-instance example-dbYou should see output similar to:AlbumId : 2 AlbumTitle : Forever Hold your Peace MarketingBudget : 300000AlbumId : 2 AlbumTitle : Go, Go, Go MarketingBudget : 300000Retrieve data using read-only transactionsSuppose you want to execute more than one read at the same timestamp. Read-onlytransactions observe a consistentprefix of the transaction commit history, so your application always getsconsistent data.Use the .NET framework'sTransactionScope()along withOpenAsReadOnlyAsync()for executing read-only transactions.The following shows how to run a query and perform a read in the same read-onlytransaction: .NET Standard 2.0 .NET Standard 1.5 Run the sample using the queryDataWithTransaction command.dotnet run queryDataWithTransaction $env:GOOGLE_PROJECT_ID test-instance example-dbYou should see output similar to:SingerId : 2 AlbumId : 2 AlbumTitle : Forever Hold your PeaceSingerId : 1 AlbumId : 2 AlbumTitle : Go, Go, GoSingerId : 2 AlbumId : 1 AlbumTitle : GreenSingerId : 2 AlbumId : 3 AlbumTitle : TerrifiedSingerId : 1 AlbumId : 1 AlbumTitle : Total JunkSingerId : 2 AlbumId : 2 AlbumTitle : Forever Hold your PeaceSingerId : 1 AlbumId : 2 AlbumTitle : Go, Go, GoSingerId : 2 AlbumId : 1 AlbumTitle : GreenSingerId : 2 AlbumId : 3 AlbumTitle : TerrifiedSingerId