Session - Private Messenger 17+

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.

I really like the idea of this app and it’s almost on par with some of its competitors (e.g., Confide, Threema.) in addition to other suggestions here, couple of easy tweaks would be big improvements. (1) The ability to edit a message once it’s been sent. I think most messaging app have that feature now. (2) Also, disappearing/ephemeral messaging could be cleaned up a bit. Would be nice if once I set an expiration time limit, the app asked if I would like that applied to all the existing messages in the chat as well. As it stands now, I have to go back and delete individual messages, one by one, which is a pain. It would also be nice if the expiration time applied to things like phone call notifications, and other informational messages in the chat. Otherwise, the app keeps getting better with every update.

Thank you for your valuable feedback! We're pleased to hear you're enjoying Session and appreciate your suggestions for further enhancements.

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.