

This will prevent messages appearing on your Lock screen. You should also turn off Notifications for Signal on your iPhone. You’ll need to provide an actual number for Google’s verification process, but can then use the Voice number to further protect your Signal. To avoid sharing your actual number, it’s possible to use a Google Voice number – just log-in to Voice with a Google account and select a new number. When you create a Signal account, the service will require that you provide a phone number, which becomes your username.

You access this tool using a new round icon (it looks like a PS controller) at the top of an image – tap it to activate and Signal will blur any faces it finds in an image.

This is designed to help you and those around you retain your privacy. Signal is developing a new tool to blur faces in images you send using the service. Signal will transfer your data from your old to your new iPhone.Take your old device, select Next and scan the QR code.Open the app and select Transfer from iOS Device.That’s a big benefit if you upgrade your device and it’s very simple to use: Signal recently introduced a new iOS tool that makes it possible to securely transfer Signal data (messages, archived chats) to new iPhones.
