(Note: Android users can have access to signal Institutions Menu either by tapping on their profile or selecting the menu under the three dots in the upper right corner and then tapping Institutions. iOS users will need to tap on their profile and then institutions to access the full menu.)
On Android can make uu standard messaging —app signal by checking Institutions > Apps and notifications > Advanced > Standard programs > SMS -Appand pluck Sign. Just remember that not everyone who has installed your SMS and that an iOS user with whom you SMS, check their signal app less frequently than they do iMessage. (iOS still doesn’t let you change the standard messaging app, sorry!)
Once your signal account has registered, you can choose a username if you decide to do so. (To maximize your privacy, Wired recommends that you do so.) Check simply Institutions and tap on your Profile at the top of the settings page. Choose the @ field and set your username, which must be unique and include two or more numbers at the end. You can change your username at any time.
The advantage of a signal user name is that you can choose to prevent other sign users from seeing your phone number, and you can prevent people from finding you on the signal if they already know what your number is. Go to Settings> Privacy> Phone Number and choose Nobody under Who can see my number and/or Who can find me by number.
One of the most critical institutions to enable is profile pins, which will make it easier for you to keep your account data, even if your devices transfer and protect your contact lists, profile information, settings and more. You can set up one when you join or are on your way to Privacy > Signal pen In your App settings to set or change you at any time. The introduction of Pins was controversial among cryptography-hardliners, questioning whether the so-called safe value recovery linked them to potential vulnerabilities. It did not help that the signal initially made the pins compulsory. You can now choose by to the Create Pin screen and tap Choose morethen Disable PIN. Just remember that if you do, you cannot bring your contacts with you to a new device, and that sensitive account information can be more vulnerable.
Finally, once uu pen set up, activate Registration lock By checking Institutions > Account and turn on to Registration lock. With this feature activated, attackers will not be able to take over your account and register it on a new device in the way they have done through the Twilio hack mentioned above.
Protect your screen
It is important to make sure that what happens in signal remains in signal. This means that people cannot see what you do there from a locker or if your programs switch. There is not much sense to have an app for sensitive messages if they only appear on your screen when you receive one.
Go to your phone to eliminate the signal locker notifications on iOS Institutions > Notificationsthen scroll down and tap Sign > Shows previews > Never. On Android, the process is similar. From your home screen to Institutionsthen Apps and notificationswhere you can eliminate all notifications. If you need more granular control, you can find it in the signal app itself, where the steps are the same, no matter what platform you are. Then tap on your profile Notificationsthen Exhibitwhere you can choose whether to display the name, content and actions for an incoming text; Just the name; or nothing. You can also dampen notifications for a specific conversation for a set time by tapping on a messaging thread, then the contact head and then Dumb. You can silence an hour, a day, a week or a year a notices of a contact.