Signal-iOS Alternatives

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• Where do you get started learning about encryption if one were trying to make an encrypted messaging app?
  reddit.com/r/iOSProgramming | 2021-03-04

  The Signal app is open-source. They use encrypted messaging focused on privacy. Their website mentions they use the open source Signal protocol. It's an extremely popular app as well

• Signal Desktop is corrupting its database
  news.ycombinator.com | 2021-02-28

  Signal has been completely anti-backup basically since it's inception. That's their prerogative, but I think it's something that needs to be made clear, front and center, before anyone starts using Signal (or asking anyone else to use Signal). Signal is the type of messaging that needs to be treated as a black hole.

  Here's issue #905 from 2015, a request for transferring messages when moving phones, closed the same day: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-iOS/issues/905

  Similarly, #967 https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-iOS/issues/967

  And #2542 (2017, when I was first looking for transferring my Signal to a new phone) https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-iOS/issues/2542

  That issue was locked and I was told to create a thread on their forum instead: https://whispersystems.discoursehosting.net/t/ios-backup-kee... - 3.5 years and 400+ messages later, backup functionality still doesn't exist for iOS, and the best solution for archiving your old messages requires jailbreaking and extracting encryption keys from your keychain: https://cight.co/backup-signal-ios-jailbreak/

  NOTE: last year, Signal introduced functionality for transferring messages to a new device, but that won't help you from data corruption or losing your device since backups and export are still not supported: https://signal.org/blog/ios-device-transfer/

• Incoming Signal video calls STILL don't ring on iOS. How is this remotely acceptable?
  reddit.com/r/signal | 2021-02-19

  A quick search reveals several "not ringing" iOS bugs from as far back as January 2017 and others from 2019, and plenty from 2020 [1] [2] [3].

  reddit.com/r/signal | 2021-02-19

  The Signal devs recently addressed this on github:

• Help the Signal team to track down bugs with delayed message notifications on Android
  reddit.com/r/signal | 2021-02-17

  Well, for Android, read the post and help them debug it. For iPhone, you could open an issue on GitHub or chime in on an open issue if you think yours is the same: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-iOS/issues/4652

• Anyway to disable callkit on iOS??
  reddit.com/r/signal | 2021-02-07
• Signal a battery hog on iOS 14.4 - known issue?
  reddit.com/r/signal | 2021-02-06

  https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-iOS#contributing-bug-reports

  reddit.com/r/signal | 2021-02-06
• Help users in Iran reconnect to Signal
  news.ycombinator.com | 2021-02-04

  Yes, they have some docs on GitHub for how to do it: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/wiki/How-to-buil...

  You can build the iOS version too for development: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-iOS/blob/master/BUILDING...

  I haven't done it before but you should even be able to deploy that build to your phone in theory: https://codewithchris.com/deploy-your-app-on-an-iphone/

  It's unclear to me if there are any restrictions on iOS that would prevent you from doing that.

• Signal needs its own notification sound
  reddit.com/r/signal | 2021-02-03
• Can we have bold and italics please?
  reddit.com/r/signal | 2021-02-02
• Facebook accuses Apple of killing its business, causing significant drop in revenue. Apple CEO has replied
  reddit.com/r/apple | 2021-01-30

  Signal provably can't. If you doubt it you can read the code, compile it yourself, and compare the checksums with the one on the apple store (if you're jailbroken) https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-iOS/tree/master/SignalMessaging

• What's stopping Whatsapp from storing the private key in their servers?
  reddit.com/r/crypto | 2021-01-30

  Only for Android. The iOS app does not have a reproducible build.

• Ios Url Scheme
  reddit.com/r/signal | 2021-01-27

  I'd suggest voting on this here as well : https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-iOS/issues/706

• Images shared from Android show as WAI files!
  reddit.com/r/signal | 2021-01-27

  The issue you're describing is reported in this issue, open since March 2020. It also affects the desktop application.