Signal Users Can Now Change Registered Phone Number Without Losing Chats

Signal has launched a brand new performance that lets customers change their registered telephone quantity on the app, with out dropping their chat historical past. When a consumer modifications their telephone quantity on Signal, all their contacts will get a in-chat notification that mentions the replace. Since all conversations on Signal are end-to-end encrypted, the moment messaging service hyperlinks the chats to a consumer’s telephone quantity, which signifies that the conversations aren’t saved and synchronised on the cloud.

As per a blog post, Signal has now added a brand new function to its apps on Android and iOS that lets customers change their telephone quantity with out dropping chats, teams, and Signal profile. The new function turns out to be useful if customers are altering their telephone numbers however want to retain the handsets. To use this function, customers want the most recent model — at the least Android v5.30.6 or iOS v5.27.1 — of the Signal app.

A assist web page mentions that the change-number function will not be supported if customers can neither ship nor obtain messages on Signal utilizing the present registered telephone quantity, have misplaced or misplaced the gadget, or wiped the telephone clear.

Signal additionally mentions that if one other particular person registers an account with the earlier telephone variety of a consumer, the previous consumer’s chat historical past, teams, and profile is not going to get carried over.