I reproduce here the dead message from &quot;uola&quot; I think the message deserves a proper response and not to be flagged.<p>&quot;Signal itself works, but since Google is blocked no phones are sold with Google Play Store and even if you hack it onto your phone (which will break when it wants to update play services) it will drain your battery trying to connect to blocked services. Unless you use vpn (which will drain battery by itself and also eventually be blocked), but notifications probably still won&#x27;t work because of the phones original firmware. So yes it works if you hack it onto your phone and then remove play services and checks the application manually. Until it wants to update the app that is, which is often.<p>Point. It doesn&#x27;t really work because it only supports the Google Play Store, even as most Chinese phones can load apps directly (because of the fragmented ecosystem). So at least it doesn&#x27;t work in the &quot;prevent mass surveillance&quot; way.<p>I guess maybe it works from the Apple App Store? (which isn&#x27;t blocked)&quot;