I am trying to use Sender Actions as described in the messenger Send API docs. However when I send a typing_on POST I do no see anything happen in messenger. I have tried on chrome desktop and the messenger android app.
I am able to send a mark_seen POST and this does update the chat with an icon indicating my message has been seen.
The request body looks as follows:-
{
"recipient":{
"id":"<PSID>"
},
"sender_action":"typing_on"
}
When sending mark_seen, typing_on or typing_off I always get the following response body.
{
"recipient_id": "<PSID>"
}
Are there additional steps needed to get the typing indicator to display? Does it only work on a specific platform? I cannot find any more documentation, and I am not getting any error messages, the POST status comes back OK identically when sending mark_seen or typing_on, I just can't see any effect after typing_on.
Okay I got reply from Facebook developer team on Facebook Developers group Quote: "This changed recently for mobile and is currently assigned to an internal team". Looks like something internal.