{"id":148070,"date":"2022-10-13T07:23:04","date_gmt":"2022-10-13T12:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/signal-will-remove-support-for-sms-text-messages-on-android"},"modified":"2022-10-13T07:23:04","modified_gmt":"2022-10-13T12:23:04","slug":"signal-will-remove-support-for-sms-text-messages-on-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/signal-will-remove-support-for-sms-text-messages-on-android","title":{"rendered":"Signal will remove support for SMS text messages on Android"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/signal-will-remove-support-for-sms-text-messages-on-android.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Signal says it will start to phase out SMS and MMS message support from its Android app to streamline the user experience and prioritize security and privacy.<\/p>\n<p>While this announcement may surprise those who don\u2019t know Signal can also be used to manage this type of text message, the Signal for Android app could be <a href=\"https:\/\/support.signal.org\/hc\/en-us\/articles\/360007321171-Can-I-send-SMS-MMS-with-Signal-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">configured as the default SMS\/MMS app<\/a> since its beginning as TextSecure, an app that used the Axolotl Ratchet protocol.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have now reached the point where SMS support no longer makes sense. In order to enable a more streamlined Signal experience, we are starting to phase out SMS support from the Android app,\u201d the company <a href=\"https:\/\/signal.org\/blog\/sms-removal-android\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">said<\/a> in a blog post published today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Signal says it will start to phase out SMS and MMS message support from its Android app to streamline the user experience and prioritize security and privacy. While this announcement may surprise those who don\u2019t know Signal can also be used to manage this type of text message, the Signal for Android app could be [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}