Chat Messages setting keeps turning off for just one contact

[Christina Harvey]

My Samsung s21 Ultra keeps turning off the chat setting/read receipt but its only for one certain contact. Ive tried tuning the setting on and off, resetting my phone but nothing seems to help, anyone else have this issue?

[Blessed4life]

Hi, maybe that person doesn't have chat services activated.

[Christina Harvey]

That's the funny thing, the other person does have it activated and it still won't work either way 

[Kate321]

Same thing happened to me and my husband. But it works in my texts with my friend.

[JDfromGB]

I have the same issue! The chat was working for months, accidently turned on a message bubble somehow, similar to what Facebook messenger has, and now all messages are text or mms messages. She still has a blue dot next to the contact. I turn on the setting in the options, go back, hit settings again, and its off. So frustrating. It still works for all the other contacts in my phone as well.

[crazybusymomto2]

Mine stopped working 2 days ago for no reason.  🤔

[AutumnAndroid]

Anyone have luck figuring this out? I've been having this issue for months and have yet to find a solution. It seems to happen very randomly and not related to any updates.

[crazybusymomto2]

Mine mysteriously resolved itself. The only thing I can think of why it had something to do with the WiFi but I'm not 100% sure. 

[Bleck98]

You know what .... I discovered about this "Chat messages" today .... I was sooooo shocked !!! I mean we samsung users had this ecosystem like imessage like feature for us for so long and i was missing on it but i always have to turn it on it keeps turning off on its own ..... But this is amazing typing indicators , high quality photos etc etc

EDIT : I tried something !!!!!! I cleared the storage of the app....And now it's working again Now it remains on 

[Bushboss22]

 I have started getting this recently when messaging my wife. Works fine with my other contacts. Any ideas how to fix this. I have tried the suggestions in this forum