No more useless groups, no more disturbance.

I was able to convince my close family and a couple of other friends to move to Signal, too; as for all the others, they still have my phone number and my email.
They know how to contact me, if they really want.

Feels good

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Hi, I'm a beginner in using Signal as an alternative to Telegram. I'd like to ask this: is "Note to Self"(Official chat) is safe for writing to myself(just I use the notes in order to send some links, texts etc from my phone to my computer)?

Trying to move to a new number on Signal, and separately had a few friends try to register fresh accounts. Everyone is hitting the same wall: the app can't send the SMS verification code at all.

Checked the debug logs and the server is returning an HTTP 440 response with the reason "provider rejected" when requesting the code. This is happening across multiple different phone numbers, not just mine, so it doesn't seem to be a number-specific issue.

Has anyone else run into this recently, or know if this is a known/ongoing issue? Already submitted a support ticket but haven't heard back yet. Any advice on troubleshooting or workarounds would help.

I've been trying to update my phone number on Signal and have my friends download it.

However, we've all been given the same error where it fails to send us an authentication code via SMS for both me who's trying to update to my new phone number, and them who are trying to register with their phone numbers.

I checked the logs and I have HTTP 440: "Sending verification code failure from service provider. Permanent:false Reason:provider rejected".

I'd appreciate some help :)

https://youtu.be/C9equPLhKxY?si=9U_iv5WkOKoKXUzB

People had some good questions.

Signal released an official contact for their release notifications called "Signal". It shows up as a contact and chat. Part of the release note said to just block it if we don't want to see it. I blocked it; I use an RSS to keep up with new release info. Every update to Signal since then on iOS or MacOS, the "Signal" contact shows back up with the message "you've unblocked this contact" when I absolutely did not unblock it. This cycle of block\unblock\block has happened every update since this feature was released. I would report this issue via GitHub but not sure where to go with it since it's both iOS and MacOS desktop and since nobody else seems to be reporting it or mentioning it I was wondering, before reporting it, if it's just me and maybe there's a trick I'm missing to permanently block it. Any direction would be appreciated!

I won't even go into the rationale for even having a complete app installation in Appdata Roaming, I just want the 5 GB out of there. Is there a wayt to force installation and location for Signal?

Hi everyone. Since yesterday I started using​ molly on GOS. All seems fine apart from one minor detail - emojis are mixed up! Like if i wanna send 🥹 it shows 🫪. At least it sends the correct selected emoji, but its hard for me to know what aother person is sending me. For a heavy emoji user like​ me its quite problematic.

Is anyone else experiencing this issue? Mayhe you sorted it out? Thank you !

I'd like to have a new feature in Signal messenger to be able to bookmark a post for archival and reading it later.

The bookmarks should be accessible from a menu, like the "Note to Self".

Hi, does anyone know why the Signal groups I was in have disappeared? The app keeps sending me notifications for unread messages, as well as a notification saying "checking for messages." The strange thing is that I haven't been removed from the groups; I would have seen a message indicating that I’d been kicked out. Does anyone know what happened? 🤔

Hi, I tried to help someone switching to a new phone and Signal stubbornly refuses to move to the new device.

Situation is as follows: switch from old Samsung A52 to new Fairphone 6. Both devices still available and both work as normal. The phone-to-phone move fails with the FP saying that it does not find the other phone. We double-checked several times that both phones have the permissions set to everything for Signal and that NFC is switched on. NFC also works fine on both for other apps. Both are in the same Wifi when trying and the Wifi should be transparent for all devices and services in the subnet and should allow everything, so no firewalls or other funny things.

Next try: backup and manual move. This 64 digit password is a pain, but OK. Even after checking many times the correctness, the old phone would not even switch on the backup because "wrong password". Can this be done better, e.g. by defining the password by ourselves or creating a human-readable password?

As it is, I'm out of ideas. Does anyone know something we could try? TIA!

Signal’s cloud backups results in a nice side effect if your app has ballooned in size from years of photos/videos - as long as you don’t mind losing the media of course…!

On iPhone there’s no bulk way of removing old media; I believe Android has some better cleansing up tools.

The free tier backs up all your text messages but only the last 45 days of media. So:

Enable Backups and save your recovery key somewhere safe!
Wait for it to complete a backup
Delete the app entirely
Reinstall, choose restore from backup, enter your recovery key
All your chats come back almost instantly, and media from the last 45 days actually restores

Enjoy some space back.

I went from ~10GB down to a few hundred MB. Full text history intact, just lost the old media I didn’t care about anyway.

One quirk: after restoring, there’s a banner saying you have X GB of “media not on device” that you can ‘download’ - which was the full size of everything. Don’t be fooled — that number seems to sum up the size of every attachment pointer in your whole message history, not just what’s actually recoverable. Try downloading something recent (from inside a chat) and it works fine; go back past 45 days and it just spins and fails. If you tap “download” on the banner in Backups, it’ll make some progress actually downloading the recent media, but then it’ll stop. you’ll then watch the total slowly shrink as it drops the unrecoverable old stuff.

Not an official feature, but for me a useful side effect of how the free tier’s storage limits work and makes up for the lack of proper pruning features in the iOS version, which has frustrated me for a while.

Hi all, I switched to a new phone number and handset recently. I still have my old iPhone handset, however I have moved signal to my new iPhone handset and number.

I have just subscribed for the $2.99/month signal secure backup plan (text + all media).

Question is whether I can now use signal secure backup to recover and transfer the messages from the old handset to my new handset (or to my Mac desktop signal app).

I think I need to:

- re-register the old handset using my new phone number per so that I can receive the confirmation code. This will de-register my new handset until I finish with the old phone, de-register it and register the new one again.

- then I can do a secure backup on the old iphone.

- then I need to somehow get the backup off my old iPhone and onto my new one. Can anyone tell me how to do this part?

Really not clear on the process, so any help would be really appreciated!

Title. It would be nice to be able to do this without cables and external program workarounds.

is this still not a thing? love everything about the app but I want to be able to watch videos with my friends on a call. I don't want to have to use discord or other apps to do this

Can we get the old landscape mode back? Screen real estate is squished compared to how it was before.

As someone who texts a lot, even with sliding for "fullscreen" the call and text buttons take up space unnecessarily.

I saved the recovery key in a secure spot but it has 66 rather than 64 characters. Something obviously went wrong. I tried cutting out the first two characters and the last two characters but nothing happens when I c/p either option in. Any ideas on what to do?

Signal needs some kind of blocklist importer by default. Lots of women don't bother going on another messenger. The switch has to be easy for chicks. Just food for thought.

With Whatsapp now embracing alphanumeric "user names" and freeing adding new contacts from having to remember phone numbers, I think the writing is on the wall: people remember user names, not numbers.

My identity is thus my user name..I would like to be able to log-in to signal regardless of what phone number I have.

My personal experience: I own two Android smartphones. Both are dual-Sim..thus I have four mobile numbers active at any given time.

Signal however associates a user name with a single phone number. Why?

Why can't I associate a single Signal user name with all four mobile phone numbers ??

Why force me to create a signal account for each number (great to artificially boost the number of users for statistical /market share / PR purposes I am sure, but believe me, I am a single user, just one person behind the two smartphones and four mobile numbers.

Currently, Signal settings say (under account->Change phone number):

"Use this to change your current phone number to a new phone number. This can't be undone".

This screen should be "add additional phone numbers to this account"

Or "add/remove phone numbers associated with this account".

Thoughts,.comments??

On the new phone, if I select "restore or transfer" I'm shown a QR code with a message stating that I should do the following:

1. Open Signal on old device.
2. Tap camera icon.
3. Scan the QR code.

There is no camera icon, though.

On the old device, selecting "transfer account" from the settings expects a bluetooth hand-off between the devices.

What's going on? This doesn't match any documentation I've found.

Edit: I looked at https://github.com/mollyim/mollyim-android/wiki/Migrating-From-Signal but could not follow these instructions to migrate from signal as I could not make a backup.

Further edit: I could not even restore the existing daily backup; only a numeric keyboard is presented when trying to type the passphrase.

Anyone have this on android? Never happens with iPhone. It seems to only be if the person I talked to calls back within a period of time after the call.

hey all,

since updating a couple of days ago I’m not able to send or receive messages in my chats, or dms. a couple of times I got them to come through by turning off my iPhone, and then they worked for a short while and I got a couple messages out but then it stops working again. should I uninstall and reinstall? Will I lose my chat history?

I have been looking for a flyer to "convince" people to Signal and/or Matrix.

But humans are stubborn so I decided to create a flyer more as an introduction/explanation with AI. What do you think of it, anything you like/dislike? The whole thing is open-source and free to use of course. I also have a German version or can easily add another language.