IMessage: Why no delivered tag?

Sometimes I use my iPhone to text another iPhone in which case it says "delivered". But what happens to a text when you know you are texting another iPhone but it does NOT say "delivered"? Did it go through anyway? Is the person's phone off? Will then get the message when they turn their phone back on? I just want to seem like an idiot and send the text again if they have already received it.

If the message you are sending is blue, and it has no delivered tag, it's undelivered. But with normal (green) text messages there's no delivered tag. Also, iMessage does not automatically happen when texting iPhones. Hope this helps: )

  • What happens when you send an iMessage to someone who has an iPhone, the messages show that it was delivered, but then it shows nothing? I was sending messages to my friend through my iPhone, it showed that it was "delivered" each time, and then out of nowhere I sent a few more and it showed nothing? I can't tell whether the remaining few messages were sent or not. Does that mean I was blocked? Is there a problem with the cellular data on my end or on my friend's end? Was my friend's phone not on? What could it be and how can I tell?
  • What does it mean if an imessage doesn't say delivered on iPhone? Every time I text my date it either says "read" or "delivered", but this morning I texted him and I haven't heard from him and the iMessage doesn't say read or delivered?
  • IMessage says delivered could that also mean they deleted my message? Some of my friends have not replied to my texts in a few days, and it says on iMessage that the text is "delivered". Could they have just deleted the message in their inbox before opening it, and that's why it still says "delivered"? We all have iPhone.
  • Is a delivered iMessage read? So I was wondering how I could tell if my iMessage was read by the person I sent it to without turning my read receipts on? I don't think it's possible but it's worth asking. And also what exactly does delivered mean? Does it mean that the person got my message and saw it? Or does it mean that it was delivered to their phone and has yet to be read? What does it mean? Sorry I'm not very iPhone smart!