Popular messaging App Signal remove SMS support from its Android app
Popular messaging App Signal has announced that it will remove SMS support from its Android device app. This removal starts now and will affect all users in the coming months.
Until now, it was possible to go through the application to send messages, through the Internet and end-to-end encrypted, and SMS and MMS to other contacts, but now it is no longer possible.
In its blog Signal states that users will have several months to abandon text messages in their application and migrate their messages to another application. Obviously, Signal hopes you can convince your contacts to switch to your messaging system. But for those who don’t have other alternatives besides SMS for an X or Y reason, they will have to resort to another application.
In addition, it will be necessary to think about changing the default SMS and MMS application in terms of Android parameters in view of the change now announced.
But why does Signal no longer support SMS?
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The platform evokes confidentiality, security and clarity. While SMS messages are useful, the technology behind this service is quite old, which makes it vulnerable and insecure. In addition, Signal is concerned with having encrypted messages (own messages) and unencrypted messages (SMS) in a single application, not to mention that SMS are managed by operators.
The company claims to have heard of users who ended up with high phone bills because they sent text messages when they thought they were messaging through their messaging service.
Therefore, if you use the Android application to send SMS, you should start looking for an alternative.
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