How to Use Signal Encrypted Messaging

If you are on Android and want to activate signal notifications, you may want to deactivate intelligent answers by going Settings > Apps and notifications > Notifications > Progressive and ensure “Proposed actions and answers”Are switched off. Google says it Keep intelligent answers privately By processing it locally on your device, however, the safest bet is to limit the interactions of the signal with the rest of the operating system.

Signal also has a screen block function for which your password or factid or touchid, whatever you get into your phone – have to display the content of the app. In the Signal app on both platform, tap your profile, and then on your profile Privacythen switch the Screen lock Option to one. Android gives you a little more granularity with A Screen lock -in -activity time crossing With the option with which you can set the function after a certain time.

You will also want to activate Screen securityThis prevents signal content from being displayed in your app switcher. Select your profile on Android, then Privacyand turn on Screen security. If you use iOS, go to your profile, tap on Settings > Privacyand activate Show the screen in the app switcher.

Message disappear

While you can always manually delete manually on the way, this action only applies to your own phone. The people with whom they chat still have it on their devices. To ensure that the conversation is deleted at both ends of a thread, you should take on “blot messages” instead.

With Signal, you can now activate disappearance of messages in all new chats that we highly recommend. Go to Settings > Privacy > Standard -timer for new chatsAnd select the time duration that should disappear your messages by default. You can select preset options between 30 seconds and four weeks or set the user -defined time you like. Note that activation of this setting only applies to new chats and that the settings for chats in which they were not are overwritten before turning them on.

You can also optimize your disappearing news settings for individual chats. In a chat, tap the name of your contact. Switch Unbelieving news And determine the time you should before you disappear. A timer symbol is displayed in your thread. Both of them can change the disappearing time by tapping it and adjusting them as required. So you can also deactivate disappear reports in a certain chat.

It is a practical function, but a brief memory of the fact that people can still find their conversations in the screenshot to lead a recording. So do not assume that you have disappeared forever – especially if you don’t trust who is at the other end of the line.

Place an encrypted call

Signal is not just for news; You can also make end-to-end-encrypted language and video calls from the app. To do this, simply tap on the pencil symbol in the app how you would start a chat. Select a contact and then select either the video symbol or the telephone symbol, depending on the type of call you want to make.

Signal now also enables group video calls. If you have already created a group, tap the chat and select the video symbol. If you want to create a new group, choose the off Pencil symbol > New groupSelect the contacts you want to include and tap on Next. Give your group a name and beat Create. Then tap the video symbol.