It's a bit hard for me to test this as I don't use requests, but can you see any ✔️ or ❌ icons on the person's profile page?
That's how the web interface does it, maybe the official app is similar?
By the way, you don't have to use the official app. There are lots of good third party apps and they tend to be better than the official app. (For example Tusky, Fedilab, Tooot on Android, Ice Cubes, Toot!, Mona, Ivory on iPhone/iPad.)