In the past, if you broke or lost your phone, your Signal message history was gone. This has been a challenge for people whose most important conversations happen on Signal. Think family photos, sweet messages, important documents, or anything else you don’t want to lose forever. This explains wh...
Signal Desktop Chat History: How to Transfer it
Are you looking for your Signal desktop chat history? Follow along with the methods mentioned here to retrieve your texts quickly!
How to move Signal Desktop message history to another computer (or during an OS reinstall) - Signal Wiki
An official feature is requested in the Signal Desktop: backup / restore messages and media topic in Signal Community.
Disappearing messages for Signal
The latest Signal release for iPhone, Android, and Desktop now includes support for disappearing messages. The timer has come With this update, any conversation can be configured to delete sent and received messages after a specified interval. The configuration applies to all parties of a convers...
Keep your phone number private with Signal usernames
Signal’s mission and sole focus is private communication. For years, Signal has kept your messages private, your profile information (like your name and profile photo) private, your contacts private, and your groups private – among much else. Now we’re taking that one step further, by making your...
Signal-Desktop: how to export messages?
How can signal-desktop messages be exported? I want to backup my correspondence. Is it possible at all?
Your Phone Notifications Reveal More Than You Realize. Here’s How to Lock Them Down
A recent case shows law enforcement can see incoming Signal messages by searching an iPhone, even after the Signal app has been deleted. Here’s what to know, and how to protect yourself.
Signal warns it would pull out of Canada if made to comply with lawful access bill
Secure messaging service says it will not weaken its encryption, privacy safeguards for government
Exporting a single Signal chat history?
Hey! (Posted this text in one of the weekly question threads.) How can I export a single Signal chat history - a group chat, really - into a…
How ChatGPT Remembers You: A Deep Dive into Its Memory and History Features
Deep-Dive on how ChatGPT profiles your account and how it can reference it during conversations
How to Use Signal Encrypted Messaging
The best end-to-end encrypted messaging app has a host of security features. Here are the ones you should care about.
Signal Messenger: Speak Freely
Say "hello" to a different messaging experience. An unexpected focus on privacy, combined with all of the features you expect.
Signal Developer Explains Why Early Encrypted Messaging Tools Flopped
'The intuition was to take the complexity and push it onto the user,' Moxie Marlinspike says at Black Hat. 'We were just wrong.'
A decade and a half of instability: The history of Google messaging apps
Sixteen years after the launch of Google Talk, Google messaging is still a mess.
The group chats that changed America
A loose private network on Signal and WhatsApp helped usher in the new alliance between Silicon Valley and Donald Trump’s new right.
Dia on Twitter / X
Meet @ History - an early access feature in Dia that uses memory to find the content you need so you don't have to.It’s brand new, experimental, and off by default. @ History is encrypted & stored locally.Want to give it a try? pic.twitter.com/j2IWUK4Yei— Dia (@diabrowser) June 11, 2025
FBI Extracts Suspect’s Deleted Signal Messages Saved in iPhone Notification Database
The case was the first time authorities charged people for alleged “Antifa” activities after President Trump designated the umbrella term a terrorist organization.
