Hello guys, welcome back to the Tenorshare Channel.
Many people are switching from WhatsApp or telegram to signal recently,
they are migrating because of signal’s unwavering dedication to user privacy and data security.
Endorsements from Elon Musk and Edward Snowden just convinced more people of that.
The surge of user sign ups even overwhelmed their server,
and prompted an outage for hours.
Fortunately, they have restored their service and everything is going well now.
So, now that you are a signal user, you might be wondering,
beyond the end to end encryption which already applied to every message,
Is there anything I can do to make it even more secure?
Definitely yes,
signal also offers some customizable settings for you to tweak a little.
In this video I’ll walk you through each of them.
Let’s dive in!
To make a comparison,
I installed signal on my Android phone
and signed up with another phone number.
First, I’d like to show you how to tweak the privacy settings.
So I tap on my profile name on my iPhone, then privacy.
The first one is read receipts.
With it enabled,
the check mark under each message would turn from blank to filed
to tell my friend that I have read the messages.
With it off,
It’ll stay blank on the other end even after I read it.
Moving on, the next one is typing indicator.
When it’s on, my friends would know
that I'm typing when they see the rippling dots here.
Toggling it off, then nothing shows up other the other end.
See, this is how peaceful communicating with each other could be.
Next one, generate preview links.
Turning it on, Preview comes with the link.
Disabling it, simply a link.
Moving on, what’s exactly does this registration lock do?
Let’s find out.
With this on,
anyone seem to be able to log us out simply with our phone number.
With it on,
they’ll need the PIN code to proceed.
To add more security to it,
let’s see how the screen lock works.
So I enable it on my iPhone, but keep it off on my Android.
Then go ahead and close both of them.
Now let’s check it out.
See, the Android version allows me directly access to it with a simple tap,
while the iOS version asking you for the passcode.
This is useful when your friends what to try your phone
and you don’t want them to see the chats.
Moving on, with screen security disabled on android,
signal previews appear in the app switcher.
With it enabled on iPhone, just a logo there for anyone to see.
There're also some other options,
like display indicator and allow from anyone,
I suggest you to keep them off.
You can also clear chat history here if you want.
In notification settings,
you can customize how much details you want to preview.
With content and name,
name only,
or just tell you there’s a new message.
Of course, you can turn off notification completely in iOS settings if you want.
In addition to these, signal offers some chats settings here for individual contacts.
Such as disappearing messages,
so let’s toggle it on, schedule it to 5 seconds.
Now let’s give it a shot.
See, the messages has disappeared on both devices.
You can also mute message sound for specific people like this. Pretty cool.
If you also own an iPad, I’d recommend you to link it with your phone,
both iPhone and Andorid are supported.
Why should we do that?
Because it virtually creates another backup of our account and chats.
So we get signal on the iPad from App Store,
then go ahead and add it as a new device.
When the QR code shows up,
tap your profile name on your iPhone.
Then head to linked devices,
tap link new device and scan the QR code.
Choose a name for your iPad.
Then here we go.
All the chats and contacts have been literally duplicated to the iPad.
Which is awesome since you can also chats with your friends the same as using an iPhone.
That’s it.
Thanks for watching.
I hope this video helps you guys.
See you in the next one.