Signal inexplicably dismissed the calls, incorrectly claiming that someone would have to have gained full access to the Mac or Windows PC in order to read the key.

Enabled by default on Windows 11, this feature uses a Digital Rights Management (DRM) flag to stop any application, including Windows Recall, from capturing screenshots of Signal chats.

Step one in the company’s playbook? Follow Apple’s lead and make Windows security more Mac-like by limiting kernel access. Microsoft intends to limit kernel access, following Apple’s example ...

So that’s exactly what Signal Desktop is now doing on Windows 11 by default. This method effectively makes Signal chats appear as a black screen to Recall, and indeed, to any screenshot attempt ...

Signal Blocks Windows 11 Recall, Making Your Chats 'Dark' to Screenshots Like Netflix DRM As of now, developers cannot stop Recall from capturing content from their apps; only users can do this.

Signal’s fix might block Recall if all chat participants use the Windows desktop app and don’t fiddle with the defaults. But it’s hardly watertight.

Signal is not the first big-name app to add support for Arm-based PCs, and it isn’t even close to being the biggest. Back in March, Google Chrome became native on Windows Arm on its Snapdragon ...