![]() Signal has just done what other apps have introduced before. For now, you won’t be able to add any reply to the thread and have to actually go outside the thread to send another reply to the original message, something which might change with another update in the future. Tapping the button will take you to a cleaned-up view compiling only the answers to that particular message. After the update, users will see a new button next to a message that received multiple replies. So, in order to fix that, Signal’s latest update comes with an optional threaded conversation view. Though, similar to WhatsApp and Telegram, you can reply to individual messages on Signal, it might get frustrating as the messages and replies start piling up and the conversation becomes tough to follow. Signal did not respond to The Independent when asked about these concerns before time of publication.Privacy-centric cloud-based messaging app Signal has introduced the thread view on Android which will let you see all the replies to a message in one place. Others posited that the company could make the difference between SMS and Signal messages more visible and were concerned that the app would now lose a competitive element in comparison to other platforms like WhatsApp. I’m actually gutted.”Īnother said that the SMS functionality allowed them to “install the app on a non technical user’s phone and they would get the benefits of Signal opportunistically. It’s because it’s my SMS client that I use it so much”, one user wrote, “this just kills it completely. ![]() ![]() I use it for Signal, but for the few SMSs I receive, I do so via Signal. On Reddit, many Android users expressed sadness at the announcement. “Signal is WhatsUp”, Twitter founder Jack Dorsey tweeted. After seven hours, it said millions had joined the platform. Signal tweeted that its signups were “on the way up”. The social media giant experienced a six-hour crash caused by configuration changes to its routers. The app gained popularity after a Facebook outage in October 2021. On iPhones, SMS messages are handled by the same app that sends Apple Messages, which are also encrypted. While Signal can currently be set as the default SMS sender on Android, it now means users will have to split messages between the default on Android – likely Google’s own Messages app – and Signal, the way that users do with WhatsApp. The company also adds that supporting both Signal messages and SMS messages is a poor user experience, and it is “important that people don’t mistake SMS messages sent or received via the Signal interface”. ![]() This is a terrible experience with real consequences”, Signal says. “We’ve heard repeatedly from people who’ve been hit with high messaging fees after assuming that the SMS messages they were sending were Signal messages, only to find out that they were using SMS, and being charged by their telecom provider. Signal now claims that it “no longer makes sense” to support SMS because plaintext messages are insecure, and in some parts of the world companies put a high cost on sending SMS messages. “But this came with a tradeoff: it meant that some messages sent and received via the Signal interface on Android were not protected by Signal’s strong privacy guarantees.” ![]()
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