You can create a second user account on your device specifically for your second Signal number. You can only use one “mobile device” with Signal at a time, but you can link up to five other devices, like tablets or laptops.Įach user account has its own set of apps and app data. Messages are end-to-end encrypted by default (just like WhatsApp), ensuring that no one - not even Signal - can access messages other than the people in the conversation. Is Signal better than WhatsApp?įor users that value privacy above all else, Signal is the best choice out of the two.
And that’s a potential reason for ill-meaning partners to migrate towards other less-identified apps for an affair. Signal's developers have also tweeted this.While social media apps like Facebook and WhatsApp are already well-known for cheating, Signal isn’t. Here is what Signal's card actually looks like on the App Store. Therefore, Signal does store the phone number you've registered with, as they've also said in their privacy policy, but do not make any attempts to link it to anything else about you. From the Forbes article where this image was taken from:Īccording to Apple, "data linked to you" means that "the data is collected in a way that is linked to your identity, such as to your account, your device or your details-to declare that data is collected but not linked to you, a developer must use privacy protections such as stripping any direct identifiers."Īnd while iMessage is better, it’s nowhere close to the class-leading Signal, which has only one item of metadata-your own phone number-and even that " is not linked to your identity." To anyone wondering why "phone number" is not listed in the box for Signal, it's because these boxes were originally created by Apple, who have their own definitions for what metadata is classified as "linked to you" and "not linked to you".
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