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…where on iOS Signal apparently corrupts its sqlite DB, leading to loss of all messages. https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-iOS/issues/5813 Interestingly here, the sqlite DB would be trivially fixable, and messages restorable, with the…

comment by nh2 · 2026-10-31 · in Molly (Signal fork) has not been updated since 3 months and is vulnerable

Hey, that sounds like Signal! https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-iOS/issues/4590 >We're not going to remove the reminders. >If you don't want to provide that access, you still don't need to – you can simply tap remind me later once a…

comment by usefulposter · 2026-01-23 · in Proton spam and the AI consent problem

…but absent from https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android or https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-iOS > The Signal people are absolutely not trustworthy for reasons of money and greed. I don't think you've raised suffici

comment by some_furry · 2026-01-04 · in The PGP problem (2019)

…https://github.com/signalapp/libsignal/releases https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/releases https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-iOS/releases https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/releases I would suggest looking at the…

comment by godelski · 2025-11-29 · in Molly: An Improved Signal App

…and money to prevent it for iOS users. Part of the code the wrote to prevent backups in question: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-iOS/blob/5590f09c3643f12...

comment by Y-bar · 2025-09-09 · in Signal Secure Backups

…issue is OGG with Opus (for me) which was used by WhatsApp but isn't natively supported under iOS. https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-iOS/issues/4539

comment by oezi · 2025-09-08 · in Signal Secure Backups

…not do for pretty much any part of iOS or Mac OS: - https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android - https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-iOS - https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop Additionally, most of the Signal server's source code…

comment by anonym29 · 2025-09-03 · in Apple pulls iPhone torrent app from AltStore PAL in Europe

…the result? Not sure what I’m missing that means so many apps don’t do this, vastly better UX. https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-iOS/blob/0151cfdee27cb03...

comment by d1sxeyes · 2025-08-30 · in Some users have noticed settings that let Meta analyze and retain phone photos

…options for iOS backups for a decade! In September 2015, users were told it was "on the roadmap": https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-iOS/issues/905#issuecomm... No option has ever existed on iOS, despite the recent announcement assuring…

comment by gojomo · 2025-07-01 · in Public Signal Backups Testing

…reflects the source code. The GitHub issue about reproducible builds is closed as not planned: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-iOS/issues/641

comment by mort96 · 2025-06-04 · in X's new "encrypted" XChat feature doesn't seem to be any more secure

…lack of reproducible builds for Signal’s apps has been a topic of discussion for quite some time: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-iOS/issues/641

comment by tailspin2019 · 2025-03-24 · in U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat

…me, I won't use your project for free". And many people say that in a much less polite way. [1]: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-iOS/blob/main/CONTRIBUTI...

comment by palata · 2024-06-07 · in Tell HN: Contributing to Signal iOS is a waste of time

…on GitHub and frequently updated, for what it's worth: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-iOS .

comment by jolux · 2024-05-25 · in Signal's Meredith Whittaker on the Telegram security clash

…this but still waiting for a merge even though it has been approved :( Edit: PR for the curious https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-iOS/pull/5685

comment by jahnu · 2024-01-05 · in Cleaning up my 200GB iCloud with some JavaScript

…https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/12961#iss... And similarly for Signal-iOS: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-iOS/issues/962#issuecomm...

comment by sgentle · 2023-12-07 · in Governments spying on Apple, Google users through push notifications

…look like Signal ignoring the user and UX issues completely. Edit: Removed some hard words. [1]: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-iOS/issues/4590#issue-72...

comment by newscracker · 2023-11-16 · in Privacy is priceless, but Signal is expensive

…app and open source however, so I'd encourage you to report any bugs or issues you find: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-iOS

comment by jamil7 · 2023-07-19 · in Telegram raises $210M through bond sales

…the former. There is an absolutely insane amount of boilerplate-looking code in here, for example: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-iOS/tree/main/Signal/src... I don't know Swift or the iOS UI API, but a lot of that code seems to be…

comment by userbinator · 2023-05-13 · in Rewriting the Messenger codebase for a faster, smaller, simpler messaging app (2020)

…it break down - e.g. 120kloc UI, 120kloc networking/data, and 120kloc other? (For comparison I dl'd https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-iOS and ran cloc. It's about 400kloc of Swift, so I guess it's in the ballpark. I just wouldn't have…

comment by javajosh · 2023-05-13 · in Rewriting the Messenger codebase for a faster, smaller, simpler messaging app (2020)

…to carry out a highly targeted attack. Even open-source systems can be vulnerable to this: see e.g. https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-iOS/blob/eaed4da06347a3a... and consider the ways it might be possible for a small group of people at…

comment by btown · 2023-04-13 · in Deploying key transparency at WhatsApp

…to ever clear it, and the devs are rather resistant to accepting that it's even a problem at all: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-iOS/issues/4916

comment by Waterluvian · 2022-10-12 · in Removing SMS support from Signal Android (soon)

…analysis. Since we haven't heard anything damaging so far, I'm guessing it's _secure enough_. [1] https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-iOS [2] https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android

comment by kklisura · 2022-10-07 · in Signal is secure, as proven by hackers

…camera API which makes using the internal camera lower quality which also makes video calls blurry. https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-iOS/issues/5294

comment by edsimpson · 2022-08-30 · in Telegram is asking German users when to share information with law enforcement

…the PIN results in the generation of a random 256-bit master key for cloud storage encryption: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-iOS/blob/main/SignalServ... The primary developer has stated previously that cloud storage is still used…

comment by dvzk · 2022-08-16 · in Twilio incident: What Signal users need to know

…horse and making silly claims would get you put to the bottom of the pile if it were my job. [1] https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-iOS/issues/4916#issuecom...

comment by proactivesvcs · 2022-04-09 · in Tell HN: iOS Signal eats your disk space

…What are you talking about? https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/blob/master/LICE... https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-iOS/blob/master/LICENSE https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server/blob/master/LICEN...

comment by tony101 · 2022-03-02 · in Secure messengers in war time

…find answers, it sounds like it's not a priority for them, being on the feature roadmap since 2015. https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-iOS/issues/2542

comment by bmarquez · 2021-09-22 · in How WhatsApp enables multi-device capability

…I started looking because I wanted to find bugs in Signal for iOS, which uses CocoaPods: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-iOS/blob/master/Podfile

comment by justicz · 2021-04-20 · in Remote Code Execution Found in CocoaPods

…issue #905 from 2015, a request for transferring messages when moving phones, closed the same day: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-iOS/issues/905 Similarly, #967 https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-iOS/issues/967 And #2542 (2017, when…

comment by lhl · 2021-03-02 · in Signal Desktop is corrupting its database

…b.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/wiki/How-to-buil... You can build the iOS version too for development: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-iOS/blob/master/BUILDING... I haven't done it before but you should even be able to deploy that build…

comment by mariojv · 2021-02-05 · in Help users in Iran reconnect to Signal

…* Not necessarily entirely Signal’s fault because, of course, Apple doesn’t make this easy. [0]: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-iOS/issues/641 [1]: https://core.telegram.org/reproducible-builds

comment by tailspin2019 · 2021-01-22 · in The Secure Messaging App Conundrum: Signal vs. Telegram [pdf]

…Looks like the situation is more complicated and still unresolved for iOS: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-iOS/issues/641

comment by eat_veggies · 2021-01-17 · in We can do better than Signal

That's right https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-iOS/blob/bac01d739403afc...

comment by z77dj3kl · 2021-01-15 · in Signal is having technical difficulties

> You don't compare builds because you probably don't actually have sources https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-iOS

comment by aidenn0 · 2021-01-13 · in Ask HN: How do we know Signal or Telegram don't store our data on their servers?

…work about it has already be done by telegram https://core.telegram.org/reproducible-builds [1] https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-iOS/issues/641 [2] https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/blob/fab24bcd1e5...

comment by dante_dev · 2021-01-13 · in Ask HN: How do we know Signal or Telegram don't store our data on their servers?

On that note, this feature - https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-iOS/issues/1567 - to allow bulk saving of media to iOS photos also hasn’t been addressed. Whatsapp allows media from specific chats to be auto saved to photos. It is a very…

comment by isignal · 2021-01-12 · in Signal Fork with WhatsApp Migration

Nothing is wrong with it. There was a bug and they fixed it: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-iOS/issues/4623

comment by noja · 2021-01-08 · in Signal WhatsApp Chats Import

…provides data transfer between phones in which case it will be more difficult to work out. [0]: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-iOS

comment by codetrotter · 2021-01-08 · in Signal WhatsApp Chats Import

…your messages to a new phone. This basic feature has been an open request for nearly 3 years. https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-iOS/issues/2542 The inconsistent features between iOS and Android are annoying.

comment by bmarquez · 2020-06-06 · in Looking back at how Signal works

…could “build” then load the software via developer tools (assuming you have an iOS dev account). https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-iOS Are there any “certs”/keys you would need to talk to your contacts?

comment by aerophilic · 2020-06-05 · in Signal app downloads spike as US protesters seek message encryption

…option). This issue has been open for more than four years [1] and even has a $1000 bounty [2]. 1: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-iOS/issues/967 2: https://www.bountysource.com/issues/28598496-message-export-...

comment by y7 · 2020-05-19 · in Signal PINs

…is less difficult than jailbreaking, if that method even really works for this problem. [0]: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-iOS/issues/641 [1]: https://core.telegram.org/reproducible-builds#reproducible-b...

comment by sixstringtheory · 2020-05-07 · in NHS open-sources contract tracing iOS and Android apps

…for yourself, by yourself. [1] https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/blob/master/Repr... [2] https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-iOS/blob/master/BUILDING...

comment by gnomewascool · 2020-02-20 · in Stop Using Encrypted Email

…and self-host the server [2]. Has anyone tried any of that, are any of them even possible? [0]: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-iOS [1]: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop [2]: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server

comment by sixstringtheory · 2020-02-20 · in Stop Using Encrypted Email

…https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server [2]: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android [3]: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-iOS [4]: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop

comment by cyphar · 2020-02-15 · in Signal is finally bringing its secure messaging to the masses

…being able to carry your contacts/message-history forward across planned device-upgrades on iOS – https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-iOS/issues/2542 – 4.5 years after it was "on the roadmap". Many of Signal's novel cryptographic…

comment by gojomo · 2020-02-14 · in Signal is finally bringing its secure messaging to the masses

…to my girlfriend that we use Signal, and won't recommend Signal to more people after this. [0] https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-iOS/issues/2542 [1] https://whispersystems.discoursehosting.net/t/ios-backup-kee...

comment by lightcatcher · 2019-12-10 · in Technology Preview: Signal Private Group System

…perspective I suppose. btw It looks like the backup problem is something you should blame Apple for https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-iOS/issues/905 . It works flawlessly on Android. As for your Siri issue, I wouldn't say it's something…

comment by Krasnol · 2019-10-25 · in Signal Technology Foundation is now open for donations

It was "on the roadmap" as of 4 years ago … https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-iOS/issues/905 …but there's been no apparent progress. On some core usability & functionality matters, Signal appears to be a really, really, lethargic…

comment by gojomo · 2019-10-25 · in Signal Technology Foundation is now open for donations

…it looks like it's locked to prevent people from endlessly complaining in their bug tracker). https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-iOS/issues/2542 It also sounds like they have a branch where they're working on this feature:…

comment by tivert · 2019-03-14 · in Telegram gets 3M new signups during Facebook apps’ outage