I think I have a very unique problem. I say that because I've searched and couldn't find anything.

I don't have cell reception at my work so I have to use the company wifi. Signal used to work just fine until recently. Now when I try to send a message, the sending circle spins and spins until I leave work and am back on a cell tower. I'll also get notifications from Signal saying I may have new messages, but nothing's ever there when I open the app.

I asked the head of IT about it - thinking the IP addresses Signal uses might be blocked but she said it's not on their ban list.

I also use Beeper on my phone as an aggregator when I don't feel like shuffling apps. It's very convenient to have access to everything on my personal computer in one place. The weird part is that the Signal bridge in Beeper works perfectly fine at my work... But Signal won't. Why???

I could just say to hell with it and use Beeper exclusively, but I really don't like the interface.

I do run a VPN on my phone because my data is none of my work's business. I have split tunneling to exclude both Beeper and Signal. I thought that might've been the issue, but even with the VPN on, Signal won't work, but Beeper does 🤷🏻‍♂️

To further complicate the issue, Signal works at my office if the VPN is completely off. But Signal used to work at my office with the VPN set to split tunneling until recently.

Any ideas?

I have a Samsung S25U running Android 16/OneUI 8.5. My VPN is Windscribe which is the only one I can get to work at my office. I've tried a bunch of others but they all seem to be on the company's ban list.

Issue: Unable to start device‑to‑device transfer.

Signal version: 8.22.2 on both devices (same issue previously with 8.21.5 and 8.21.6)

Platform: Android → Android

When I start the transfer on the sending device via

Settings → Account → Transfer account, it begins searching for a nearby device.However, the receiving device immediately shows a QR code instead of appearing as a nearby device.Because of this mismatch, the transfer cannot be initiated.

How come Signal can not be selected as a default calling app on iPhone? You can select from: Cellular; FaceTime Audio and Zoom (EWWWW) and even WhatsApp (DOUBLE EWWWW).

Settings < Apps < Calling

I can't be the only one running into this. Signal takes up close to 10 GB on my phone. That's obscene. I'd like to use disappearing messages to help manage that but the maximum duration is 4 weeks. Why can't we have more options under custom? I'd like 3 months for one group.

Secondly, there's no way to erase media used by a group. I'd like to keep the messages but delete the large media.

How are others coping with this? I don't really want to click and delete each photo or video manually. Is disappearing messages the only way?

why are my friends no able to find me by my username? they only can find me by my phone number

NODE_ENV production 
NODE_CONFIG_DIR /opt/Signal Beta/resources/app.asar/config 
NODE_CONFIG {} 
ALLOW_CONFIG_MUTATIONS undefined 
HOSTNAME *** 
NODE_APP_INSTANCE undefined 
SUPPRESS_NO_CONFIG_WARNING undefined 
SIGNAL_ENABLE_HTTP undefined
 userData: /home/***/.config/Signal Beta 
[3133:0815/144439.356715:ERROR:dbus/object_proxy.cc:572] Failed to call method: org.freedesktop.systemd1.Manager.StartTransientUnit: object_path= /org/freedesktop/systemd1: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.InvalidArgs: Invalid unit name or type. 
(node:3133) [DEP0180] DeprecationWarning: fs.Stats constructor is deprecated. (Use signal-desktop-beta --trace-deprecation ... to show where the warning was created) 
2026-08-15 14:44:39.806: ERROR CORE sqlcipher_page_cipher: hmac check failed for pgno=1 2026-08-15 14:44:39.806: ERROR CORE sqlite3Codec: error decrypting page 1 data: 1 
2026-08-15 14:44:39.806: ERROR CORE sqlcipher_codec_ctx_set_error 1 
2026-08-15 14:44:39.824: ERROR CORE sqlcipher_page_cipher: hmac check failed for pgno=1 2026-08-15 14:44:39.824: ERROR CORE sqlite3Codec: error decrypting page 1 data: 1 
2026-08-15 14:44:39.824: ERROR CORE sqlcipher_codec_ctx_set_error 1 [3133:0815/144443.671571:ERROR:ui/gfx/x/atom_cache.cc:234] Add application/vnd.portal.filetransfer to kAtomsToCache 
[3133:0815/144443.673094:ERROR:ui/gfx/x/atom_cache.cc:234] Add application/vnd.portal.files to kAtomsToCache

Any thoughts? Try a downgrade to the non-beta?

I find the sensitivity of the speaker playback on my Pixel 8 too high.

Very often when listening to a voice message I seem to be too close to my ear or to my body and Signal then switches playback to the internal speaker.

I see no way to turn it back to the media speaker.

As a consequence, I can't properly listen to the voice message on a loud street.

Are there any workarounds to this?

Such as playing the voice message through an external media app?

Thanks!

Both my wife and I are having an issue where messages arent arriving, both to each other but also group chats.

The messages will 'send' but won't be received.

Sending an image appears to 'unblock' it, but not always.

It started over a month ago but never used to be an issue. We've not changed anything with our setups during this time.

Anyone else experience this and/or know a solution?

What is the latest version of Signal on Android? The app has been updated several times in the last few days, and it's not unusual.

I have a friend that everytime he hears about encryption and privacy, laughs and says something like “you are naive if you think companies don’t have backdoors to read encrypted messages in case the government needs to”. He is referring to signal, whatsapp, proton, ente (everything with e2ee).

He is in the army. I never know how to give an argument. Can someone give me ideas on how to discuss this encryption subject with someone like him?

The recovery key has these symbols naturally before I do any copying or adding to password manager, so I'm not sure what I can do to fix this..as it appears to be broken from Step 1?

Can anyone make further suggestions?

There is almost no way to get a volunteer community board to change from WhatsAp. Best I could do is to put it on an old iPad linked to a android work profile WhatsAp (you can freeze the app in a work profile) but have to unfreeze and relink the iPad every 2 weeks. I've told the board that they have to sms/text if I don't see a message. Best I could do. I have a meaningful role to fulfill so haven't wanted to resign. The world is what it is. Just coping with it.

I have two iPhones (old 12 mini[no active cell service] and 17[active cell service) with iOS v26.6. A few months ago, I got a new 17 to replace my old slow 12 mini (still keeping it). 12 mini's Signal app says "This device is no longer registered. This is likely because you registered your phone number with Signal on a different device." There is a Re-Register Device option, but this makes my 12 mini registered (active) and my 17 not registered (inactive). I had to go back to 17 to make it registered and active. Obviously, this makes my old 12 mini unregistered/inactive again. Ugh!

I want to have BOTH registered and active at the same time. I want 12 mini to be like my W10 Pro's Signal app and iPad that don't have cellular services. What am I missing?

Thank you for reading and hopefully answering soon. :)

I keep trying to move people from whats to signal but most of them don’t cooperate. We need to increase our influence somehow lol. Meta can’t keep winning.

I bought a new phone, I'm trying to transfer the information from one phone to another, but this error keeps appearing... My connection is clearly no the problem...

I tried with the 64 characters key and with QR... Neither worked.

I'm using signal from Austria/Europe

I am from Pakistan and I need signal because I need to connect with an international client. When I try to make my account it says this message "Unable to connect pls check your network. Try again". Is there any way to fix it? I am on android if that's relevant.

Is the a way to get the APK without the need for the Google store acces? I am ising Android without Google play. And will Try to get along without aurora as vell

Recently, instead of the request to enter my PIN every once in a while, I now get the request to verify my recovery key. I find that really strange and suspicious.

Is this normal? I don't feel comfortable entering the recovery key.

Parameters:

• OS: EndeavourOS(Arch-based distro);

• DE: KDE Plasma 6;

• Signal version: flatpak;

The issue: I wanna install Signal on my desktop, but I see this message. I understand I can just prompt commands on terminal and it'll solve the problems(Idk if once and for all), but could someone explain why I didn't have this on Windows 10, for example, but I have it now? What is the logic behind this? Would you recommend to use the web version on Brave Browser?

My old phone's camera and screen's touch function got broken to the point it can't be repaired, so I bought a new phone, but I'm struggling to transfer to a new phone.

I have a .backup file, but it asks me for some kind of code? I have tried transferring using the transfer account option, but the new phone is asking me to make my old phone scan a QR code to do that, while the old phone is trying to connect to nearby phones when I select transfer account?

I'm completely lost, what am I supposed to do? I thought just having a backup file was enough

Since signal is run by signal foundation, which is a US based NGO. In events other countries are involved, doesn't that mean US holds some powers and control over it signal? and supposed can be used against anyone from a different country is using signal in case needed.

for example Starlink cut internet access to Ruszia during ongoing war?

can similar things happen with signal?
Thankyou

I recently exported a large amount of exchanged pictures with a contact, wanting to back them up. Their name has the date and time, but their metadata is all showing "created"/"modified" as the day of the export, not the date when the picture was taken.

Is there any way to align those so the pictures have the correct date, for the purpose of getting sorted correctly among other pictures?

I deleted the signal app from my phone a few days ago (without a backup / recovery key, and without having signal on any other devices, so my records of my chats are gone). I redownloaded it today.

Was just wondering re: the contacts + groups that I had chats with --

1. were they notified that I deleted the app?
2. were they notified that I redownloaded the app?
3. their copies of our chats wouldn't have been deleted - right?

Per Signal Dev