Signal has been updated with a new update that brings with it the best features WhatsApp and thus help the transfer of users who come from the app owned by Facebook; and that there are many more than what was once thought.
A Signal that is placed in the best of positions, and that has even had its criticisms for a long time, referring to not being able to create a user without a phone number like WhatsApp, in order to become the best app that advocates for privacy thanks to that end-to-end encryption in messages, everything you share and even video calls.
Moment of grace for Signal
Thanks to the inconvenience of the communication carried out by WhatsApp and that update to the privacy terms in the app, Signal is in a moment of grace growing 4.300% in downloads; we have already talked about his best virtues and a comparative face to face with Telegram in terms of privacy.
How it started vs how it's going? pic.twitter.com/ERiFpZUz6c
- Signal (@signalapp) January 14, 2021
A moment of grace also by taking advantage of the moment in which Telegram is, since due to providing better service and offering better features, such as announced and justified themselves with a publication on their website, does not offer end-to-end encryption on messages until you make the chat secret (and you know that in the end we forget to press the above button).
So now with this new update, and knowing the team behind Signal, that many of those who are leaving WhatsApp are going to their messaging solution, have incorporated a series of features so that we do not miss WhatsApp.
WhatsApp incorporations in Signal
These are all the news that are being enjoyed already in the Signal beta that we know thanks to WABetainfo.
Wallpapers
Signal copies the WhatsApp functionality as is so that we can have a preview of the wallpaper and which includes call buttons and even contact name, wallpaper reset, solid colors and even custom wallpapers by chat; the latter one of the most striking functions incorporated into the green icon app.
Customize contact information
In WhatsApp we can put a message so that when a contact takes a look at the chats or contact list, they can find that text as contact information. That is can we write something about us as in the app owned by Facebook.
Animated Stickers
Another addition to Signal and is the ability to create animated stickers from the Signal desktop app so that we can share them with friends and family. In fact we already have a pack of animated stickers "Day after day".
Data saving mode
Signal brings with it another great novelty and is the data saving mode for calls and that allows us to reduce data consumption during the calls we make through the app.
Suggestion of contacts
Now you will see when sharing contacts And that is a feature that WhatsApp implemented on iOS.
Download preference
Now you can decide whether to automatically download the media they share with you or customize through which connection you can do it.
Group calls
Signal has increased to 8 users, the number that can participate in a group call. While it has been 5 so far, the chat app with end-to-end encryption has already incorporated it.
Group invitation link
An interesting function so that we can share group invitation links and it's easier than ever to attract new users to our group on Signal.
All these new features incorporated into Signal and that come from WhatsApp. A Signal that continues to add thousands of users every minute and that grows even faster than Telegram when it began its journey years ago and it cost it its own to reach the number of millions of users it currently has.
