Signal - Private Messenger 12+

From time to time some visual bugs can be surprising, like disappearing backgrounds in menus or some spacing of elements changing suddenly.

I would really love an option to choose the alternative icon, like reversed one, blue on white background or maybe something else.

And the most powerful change for me would be the option to make corrections in messages for like 10 - 30 seconds from sending — this could be just a basic function or requiring in the conversation or group acceptance from everyone.

Edit: After years of using the app I have to give it one star. Turns out, your media files are held hostage on iOS with no easy way to export media files. If you loose your phone, you loose your data. No backup option at all. This is such a core feature , that I can’t give more stars. Original review: This is much better app compared to Facebook messenger or what’s app. 1. No advertisements anywhere 2. Photos sent through Signal are MUCH higher quality 3. You know that your conversations will stay private, and not analyzed by a state or advertisers like on Facebook. However the app can’t completely replace Facebook Messenger, because you need to give others your phone number I don’t want to give my phone number to coworkers, random girls or people from uni (much bigger damage can be made if someone pranks you with putting your number on random sites). But for friends, family, people you usually talk to using this app makes so much better experience. Second minor detail is that you still can’t copy/ backup easily and automatically all conversation history from phone to PC. Other than that this app is really good.

Everything was great until I needed to transfer my messages to the new iPhone. Constant errors when scanning QR (occurred that finding iPhones in local area was disabled on the older phone), but it should give instantly a proper solution instead of throwing meaningless errors. Later, when data was transferred and I had an access to all messages on the new phone, an error occurred that the phone number was unregistered (although I had to register it at the very beginning of the whole process!) so I couldn’t send or receive any messages. Ended up in registering again and losing all the data (because data on the old phone is automatically removed after transferring it). I have never seen such a problematic process of transferring data in any app.