Signal’s New Texting Features Give You Better Message Controls, Privacy

Signal mentioned Wednesday that a number of new options have been trickling into the texting app during the last a number of weeks, together with enhancements to textual content messages together with a technique to restrict message threads with folks you are not in common contact with.

The end-to-end encrypted messaging app Signal has gotten extra standard in recent times as customers search for methods to speak whereas retaining the privateness of their chats. The Signal workforce has slowly added options present in different apps. In its New Features Roll Call weblog put up, Signal mentioned message modifying and formatting have arrived within the app — permitting customers to repair typos and add formatting. 

Edited messages embrace the power to verify the complete edit historical past of a message, so the unique model of a textual content will not be misplaced perpetually when edited. Signal can be limiting edits to 10 occasions inside 24 hours of sending. An exception are for texts despatched to oneself, which might be edited a vast variety of occasions since that is not really a dialog.

Signal can be including formatting, which incorporates conventional daring, italic, strikethrough and monospace choices. The app can be together with “spoiler” formatting, which acts much like the Invisible Ink function in Apple’s iMessage. Text that is in “spoiler” formatting will stay obscured till it is tapped on, permitting it to stay hidden till it is the best time to view it.

Signal has additionally added the power to take away a contact that is reached out to you from texting you, with out essentially blocking them. This could possibly be significantly helpful for an individual you have texted solely inside Signal prior to now, however they don’t seem to be in any other case in your cellphone’s contact listing (in actual fact if they’re, step one is to take away them). 

As lengthy because the individual you wish to take away out of your Signal contact listing can be not in your cellphone’s contacts, you possibly can lengthy press their identify in Signal’s contact listing after which choose “Remove.” Should that individual attain out to you once more, you may obtain a message request that can both allow you to settle for to begin the chat, delete to delete the chat or block if you happen to’d moderately not see future requests from this individual.

Signal’s function bulletins come as rival WhatsApp makes a variety of its personal bulletins in latest weeks, which have included launching help for a number of accounts and a new Mac app.

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