Signal is available on the iPhone’s App Store and the Google Play Store for Android devices. You must have a phone number capable of receiving a text message or phone call, since a verification ...

A similar feature for Signal's iOS app has existed for a while now The latest feature is called ‘Transfer account’ and it has arrived with version 5.5 of Signal app’s beta version.

Technically speaking, Android users have had access to all the features in Signal since 2010, via two different apps from Open Whisper, RedPhone for calling, and TextSecure for secure texting.

But Signal isn’t the only messaging app that uses end-to-end encryption, and end-to-end encryption isn’t the only consideration in choosing a secure messaging app.

When Signal 2.0 was released for iPhone earlier this year, it supported encrypted messaging with TextSecure on Android, however encrypted calls were restricted to devices, namely iPhones, with ...

Signal, a popular encrypted messaging app, has recently patched a flaw that left Android users’ audio calls vulnerable to bad actors. Basically, the bug ...

In tests by BleepingComputer, the uninstallation and reinstallation of Signal app on Android and iOS devices did reset the safety number, and the contacts were notified of the safety number change.

The Signal app for iOS doesn’t have censorship circumvention for Cuba and Oman yet, but it got the feature for Egypt and United Arab Emirates after it rolled out on Android, so the same thing ...