Executive Summary
- •Signal now allows users to link multiple Android devices and iPhones under one phone number.
- •The app previously restricted multi-device linking to PCs and iPads.
- •Users can optionally transfer an end-to-end encrypted copy of message history to newly linked devices.
Community Sentiment
Key Developments & Data
Signal rolls out multi-phone linking across Android and iOS devices.
Users can now link extra Android phones or iPhones under a single phone number.
Signal previously restricted multi-device linking exclusively to desktop PCs and iPads.
Users can choose whether to transfer an end-to-end encrypted copy of past messages to newly linked hardware.
The update rolled out in version 8.20 on Android and version 8.22 for iOS.
And it's always a delicate engineering tradeoff between convenient session syncing and keeping zero-trust privacy intact.
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