Removing SMS support from Signal Android (soon)
I&#x27;ve been using Signal for a long time. I have <i>repeatedly</i> been unable to convince iOS users to use Signal because &quot;I don&#x27;t want another app&quot;. Android users have been much more willing to give it a shot.<p>As an android user myself, I much prefer having SMS built in because I use the search feature often to look back through all my SMS&#x2F;Signal chats. I also regularly forward an SMS message to a Signal user, or vice versa. I&#x27;m already starting to feel like those iOS users who told me &quot;I don&#x27;t want another app&quot;...<p>Signal seems to be trying to move further and further from &quot;my preferred way to chat with people&quot; and closer to the chat equivalent of &quot;that protonmail account I only log in to when I need secrecy&quot;.<p>I obviously love having security on messages in transit, but I also like being able to keep my message history around and search my conversations for something that happened a year ago. It seems like Signal is on a trajectory to turn everything into disappearing messages. Are they the &quot;safe for activists&quot; communication app, or the &quot;let&#x27;s try to make as many as possible safer by default&quot; app? Feels like they don&#x27;t know.<p>And on top of it all the messaging is just frustrating. &quot;we&#x27;ve taken away an incredibly useful and heavily used feature so we have development resource to better implement shitcoins and such&quot; is such an irritating defense of the decision that I disabled my monthly donation.