Session - Private Messenger 17+

Please add support for:
- An option for a delay on the screen lock requiring authentication to get back into the app (30 seconds, one minute, five minutes, etc.)
- Larger versions of the emoji reactions to messages; they’re super tiny right now
- changing the font size via the iOS Text Size feature in the Control Center
- Also, at least the iPad version of the app has a bug in which it often doesn’t prevent the screen from locking during a video call; the screen dims and then eventually shuts off, both on low-power mode and regular mode. Re-unlocking the iPad and going back to the video doesn’t fix the problem; it just occurs again. It would appear that the bug is triggered when the user minimizes the video to look at some thing in the chat and then goes back to the video. The only solution I have found so far is to quit the app and restart it.

Thank you for your feedback and suggestions! We appreciate your input and will take them into consideration for future updates. If you have any other questions or concerns, feel free to let us know.

Until now have touted session as the best e2e messenger to anyone who’d listen. The unique sessionid anonymous signup and built in onion routing are clutch features that give the app an advantage over competitors. But for the past few months session has been super glitchy. Not syncing between my devices anymore (all running current versions of session); messages randomly don’t self delete in certain chats (even with both users’ apps up to date and self destruct settings updated accordingly). I’ve ridden for session for a long time and got dozens of people to use it, but with the amount of problems I’m having it’s becoming almost unusable. Everyone in my session group is still a member but no one actually gets messages from the group anymore. What is going on? Is this ever going to get better? Any insight into why signal and (sigh) telegram function so much cleaner in general? I’m trying to convince myself that switching to signal for primary use isn’t necessary but session has sucked lately, coming from someone who loves the app, or at least I still love the concept. Thanks for your work but session as it functions now isn’t cutting it.

Suggestion I agree with: need an option to retroactively delete all messages that were sent before a self destruct timer was set. At this point though it’s hard for me to trust my messages aren’t still on the receiver’s device even if they self destruct on mine.

Hi there! We truly appreciate your long-time support and feedback. Our team is aware of the syncing and self-destruct issues and is actively working to resolve them. Your suggestion has been noted. Thank you for your patience and understanding!

I almost only use this app because of the privacy it offers. Yes, I’d like to be able to edit the user’s name BEFORE they accept the chat so I remember who they are instead of looking like an idiot and asking what their username/profile name was again. Sure there’s the occasional issue where you don’t get notifications that you received a message.

But now?!? The last couple of weeks it’s been barely working. Messages sit in “sending” for up to 15 mins! Before finally going through. And I keep getting syncing, failed to sync messages. I uninstalled the windows app - didn’t change anything. Uninstalled reinstalled the iOS app - thought it worked as all my messages went through - then the hang up started again within the hour. Other users I talk to say they have the same issue. Their messages are stuck in a massive hang before finally going through.

You have a great service offering privacy in a time and world where privacy doesn’t exist anymore. Please fix the issues though.

Thank you for your feedback. We're aware of the issues you've mentioned and are actively working on improvements. Your patience is appreciated as we strive to enhance the reliability of the Session app.