Neowin News Feed for: Signal

Apple fixes bug cops used to recover deleted chats from alleged Antifa member's iPhone

David Uzondu — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 02:38:01 +0000

Privacy enthusiasts can now rest easy, as Apple has rolled out an important fix for iOS and iPadOS for a bug that allowed cops to use forensic tools to extract messages from iPhones and iPads. Read more...

You can now pin messages to the top in Signal Messenger

David Uzondu — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 19:18:01 +0000

The Signal team has rolled out a small feature in the latest version of the messenger that lets you pin messages to the top of the chat. Read more...

EFF sounds the alarm on Chat Control, a regulation allowing scanning of private messages

Usama Jawad — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 20:16:01 +0000

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has criticized Europe's Chat Control regulation, which potentially allows governments to spy on phones. Read more...

Signal users can now back up and restore messages safely

David Uzondu — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 21:04:01 +0000

Signal is finally adding a long-requested feature: the ability to securely back up and restore message history. Read more...

Windows 11 Recall will fail to capture Signal chats as long as you have this feature enabled

David Uzondu — Thu, 22 May 2025 07:46:01 +0000

Windows Recall is one of the most controversial features Microsoft has ever introduced to Windows, and now Signal is giving users a way to block it from capturing their chats. Read more...

Elon Musk's X blocks links to the messaging app that DOGE whistleblowers use to communicate

David Uzondu — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 11:40:02 +0000

Users on X noticed that the platform started blocking links to Signal, the encrypted messaging platform popular among DOGE whistleblowers. Read more...

Signal 7.34.0 brings official support to Windows on ARM devices

David Uzondu — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 08:52:01 +0000

Signal Messenger has joined the Windows on ARM club with its latest 7.34.0 update fully optimized for PCs with ARM processors. Read more...

Signal makes joining calls a breeze with new call links

Pradeep Viswanathan — Tue, 12 Nov 2024 07:16:01 +0000

Signal has introduced a new call links feature that simplifies group calling by allowing users to share a link to join a call. Read more...

FTC accuses Jeff Bezos, Andy Jessy and others of deleting chats amid antitrust investigation

Karthik Mudaliar — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 06:02:01 +0000

The FTC alleges that founder Jeff Bezos and CEO Andy Jassy destroyed messages discussing business matters to erase potential evidence amid the FTC's ongoing antitrust investigation against Amazon. Read more...

Signal begins testing usernames, giving the ability to keep phone numbers private

Steve Bennett — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 10:24:01 +0000

The messaging app Signal has begun testing of a new feature that allows for the creation of private usernames alongside the ability to generate QR codes to share your profile with others. Read more...

UK passes law that could see unruly tech bosses jailed

Paul Hill — Thu, 26 Oct 2023 18:58:01 +0000

The UK has finally passed the Online Safety Bill. It's a wide-reaching piece of legislation that aims to improve child safety online. It threatens tech bosses who don't comply with fines and jail. Read more...

Signal phone numbers of 1,900 users exposed in Twilio phishing attack

Hemant Saxena — Tue, 16 Aug 2022 06:36:02 +0000

Signal has reported a recent phishing attack on its verification service provider, Twilio, which has exposed approximately 1,900 users registered to a Signal account. Twilio has shut down the attack. Read more...

Ukraine is calling for volunteers to cyberattack Russia

Karthik Mudaliar — Sun, 27 Feb 2022 21:10:01 +0000

Ukraine's digital transformation minister Mykhailo Fedorov is calling for international volunteers to help wage cyber-war on Russia. The telegram channel has more than 180,000 members. Read more...

You can now change your phone number on Signal without losing your data

Usama Jawad — Tue, 08 Feb 2022 15:16:01 +0000

Signal customers will be pleased to know that they can now change their phone number on the secure messaging platform without losing access to data like profile, messaging threads, and groups. Read more...

Signal tries to show how much data Facebook collects, gets banned from the platform instead

Mehrotra A — Wed, 05 May 2021 08:50:01 +0000

Signal recently created multiple ads to highlight the amount of data collected by Facebook. However, Facebook disabled the company's ad account before these ads could reach their target audiences. Read more...

UK politicians face legal challenge over self-destructing messages

Paul Hill — Mon, 29 Mar 2021 20:16:02 +0000

The law firm Foxglove is making a legal challenge against the British government because it's concerned that MPs are side-stepping archiving laws using self-destructing messages on chat apps. Read more...

Indian government asks WhatsApp to backtrack on privacy policy

Paul Hill — Tue, 19 Jan 2021 15:16:01 +0000

The Indian government has written to WhatsApp after the firm announced a change to its privacy policy. The government said that the changes were discriminatory because they didn't affect Europeans. Read more...

WhatsApp delays the enforcement of its new privacy terms by three months

Usman Khan Lodhi — Fri, 15 Jan 2021 21:08:02 +0000

WhatsApp is postponing its new privacy policy due to confusion among users. Though the earlier deadline was February 8, users can now take until May 15 to read the terms of the agreement. Read more...

Signal confirms service outage, restoration efforts underway

Jay Bonggolto — Fri, 15 Jan 2021 20:34:01 +0000

Signal has confirmed via Twitter that its service is down at the moment, preventing users from sending messages. The company is currently working to restore its service for everyone. Read more...

Microsoft pokes fun at WhatsApp privacy fiasco, recommends Skype instead

Usama Jawad — Sat, 09 Jan 2021 09:24:01 +0000

Following WhatsApp updating its privacy policy to indicate that user data will be shared with Facebook, Microsoft has jumped in on the opportunity to recommend that users migrate to Skype instead. Read more...

Old TV in Welsh village behind broadband outages

Paul Hill — Tue, 22 Sep 2020 12:16:01 +0000

An old second-hand TV has been emitting an electrical signal in a village in Wales knocking surrounding broadband connections offline. It took Openreach engineers 18 months to discover the cause. Read more...

WhatsApp CEO leaves after Facebook reportedly decides to weaken encryption

Paul Hill — Tue, 01 May 2018 01:00:01 +0000

Jan Koum has announced that he is leaving Facebook after a disagreement between him and the firm broke out over the matter of encryption. Facebook wants to weaken the encryption in WhatsApp. Read more...

Telegram and Signal experience worldwide outages

Muhammad Jarir Kanji — Mon, 05 Mar 2018 11:18:01 +0000

Two of the most popular mobile messaging services, Telegram and Signal, are both experiencing outages across Europe and Asia, with some intermitted outages in other parts of the world as well. Read more...

Moxie Marlinspike announces the Signal Foundation

Paul Hill — Thu, 22 Feb 2018 16:14:22 +0000

Moxie Marlinspike, the lead developer behind Signal, has announced the formation of the Signal Foundation, which has started off life with $50 million in funding to grow the project. Read more...

Entry-level 32GB iPhone 7 nearly eight times slower than other models

Vlad Dudau — Fri, 21 Oct 2016 11:12:01 +0000

Apple's new generation of iPhones has some particular quirks discovered by testers. Some phone models are significantly slower than others, while others suffer from very poor connectivity. Read more...

Microsoft's Lumia 640 found to be the best phone to use on a weak signal

Justin Luna — Tue, 06 Sep 2016 14:44:01 +0000

The Aalborgs University in Denmark conducted a study, finding out which smartphones perform best on a weak signal. It concluded that Microsoft's Lumia 640 blasts other phones in signal performance. Read more...

PSA: Turn off this iOS 9 setting if you don't have an unlimited data plan

Usama Jawad — Sun, 27 Sep 2015 14:18:01 +0000

There is a default setting in Apple's iOS 9, which is probably using more of your data plan than usual. Fortunately, there's an easy fix for the issue which takes less than a minute. Read more...

Mobile networks dismiss UK government's 'national roaming' plan

Andy Weir — Tue, 24 Jun 2014 10:59:17 +0000

The UK government has proposed a 'national roaming' plan, to allow mobile users to switch to rival networks in areas with limited coverage, but leading carriers have dismissed the idea as unworkable. Read more...

Sony acknowledges “issues” with PS4, says they are “isolated incidents”

Andy Weir — Fri, 15 Nov 2013 04:20:05 +0000

Following multiple reports of problems with the PlayStation 4, ahead of its U.S. launch today, Sony has said it is "investigating reported issues", but that it believes these are "isolated incidents". Read more...

AppleCare says the software update won't resolve the signal issue

Brad Sams — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 20:45:34 +0000

The iPhone 4 reception issue is quickly blossoming into a hardware issue that is on the same scale as the Xbox 360 red ring of death. After finally publicly admitting that there is a known... Read more...

Free iPhone 4 bumpers for signal problem but did Apple pre-empt the issue?

Tom Warren — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 10:44:47 +0000

Apple's much hyped iPhone 4 went on sale in the UK, US and some European countries on Thursday, but some customers are reporting signal issues with the latest handset. Steve Jobs' first reply to the issue... Read more...

TV stations cut analog signal today

Andrew Lyle — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 02:39:42 +0000

As Neowin had previously reported about the DTV switch on February 17, 2009, 491 stations will end broadcast of their analog signal today at 11:59pm. More stations are due to end their signal, up... Read more...

Man Charged With Stealing Wi-Fi Signal

Thu, 07 Jul 2005 19:33:21 +0000

Police have arrested a man for using someone else's wireless Internet network in one of the first criminal cases involving this fairly common practice. Benjamin Smith III, 41, faces a pretrial hearing... Read more...

Space signal studied for alien contact thanks to SETI@Home

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 02 Sep 2004 16:51:55 +0000

England (Reuters) -- An unexplained radio signal from deep space could -- just might be -- contact from an alien civilization, New Scientist magazine reported on Thursday. The signal, coming from a point between the... Read more...

Intel says Serial ATA signal speed doubled

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 21 Apr 2004 09:08:03 +0000

CHIP GIANT Intel said that future specs of Serial ATA will double its signalling speed and give it additional cable and connectors. The spec for the S-ATA signalling speed at 3Gbps is now complete, while... Read more...

New Wireless Standard to Carry Cable TV Signal

Tue, 27 Jan 2004 16:15:56 +0000

A new wireless technology with enough bandwidth to carry cable television signals from a wall-mounted outlet to a TV anywhere in the home could be on the market as early as next year, an industry... Read more...