What are some signs that she's not interested in me over text?

The strongest signal is not how short her messages are but whether they hand the conversation back to you. A person who is interested leaves a hook: a question, a teasing line, a detail you can pick up. A person who is not interested answers exactly what you asked and stops there, so the ball lands in your court with nothing attached. Watch for a pattern where every reply is accurate and complete but never opens anything new. Also watch whether she follows your details. If you mention a job, a trip, or a friend and she never comes back to it later, she has not stored it, which usually means she is not invested.

Do not confuse this with a personality. Some people text in fragments all the time and are warm in person. Compare her messages with each other rather than against your own. If she was chatty on day one and clipped by day three, something changed. If she has always been brief, the message length tells you little, and you need to look at whether she replies with any warmth at all.

When you want to check where things stand, the reply should be a small, specific, low-cost thing she can answer in five seconds. Name one concrete detail from her last message and add a light opinion or a simple follow-up question. The move is to make answering easier than ignoring, and to make the question about her experience rather than about your standing. Avoid anything that asks whether she likes you, what the plan is, or why she has been quiet, because each of those forces a decision she may not want to make over text.

You can tell a draft is right when it is short, mentions something she actually said, and would still make sense if she never replied to it again. If the draft only works when she responds warmly, it is pressure dressed as a message. Leave out apologies for being too much, leave out compliments that fish for reassurance, and leave out any reference to the gap in replies.

A reply that comes back hours or a day later is not a signal on its own, so give it room before you read anything into it. Two to three days of silence after a real back and forth is a clearer message. If you sent a question and she has not replied in a day or two, send one follow-up at most, and make it lighter than the first, such as a simple comment on something you have both mentioned or a fresh, low-stakes question. Do not stack messages or add a second one with an apology attached.

If that gets no answer, stop. Do not send a final message explaining that you are moving on, and do not check whether she has read it. Let the conversation end where it ended. If she comes back later with real warmth, you can respond then. If she does not, you have your answer, and the time you would have spent chasing can go to meeting someone who is actually replying.