(Note: Android users can access the signals Parameters Menu either by pressing their profile icon, or by selecting the menu under the three points in the upper right corner, then typing Parameters. IOS users will have to press their profile icon, then the settings to access the full menu.)
On Android, you can make signal your default email application by going to Parameters > Applications and notifications > Advance > Default applications > SMS applicationand picking Signal. Remember that all those you send a text did not install it and that an iOS user with which you send SMS could check its signal application less often than it does. (iOS still don’t let you modify the default email application, sorry!)
Once you have saved your signal account, you can choose a username if you decide to do so. (To maximize your privacy, Wired recommends you to do so.) Just go to Parameters And press your Profile At the top of the Settings page. Select it @ field And define your username, which must be unique and include two or more numbers at the end. You can change your username at any time.
An advantage of having a signal username is that you can choose from preventing other signal users from seeing your phone number, and you can prevent people from being on the signal if they already know your number. To activate these options, go to Settings> Confidentiality> Telephone number and select Person below Who can see my number and / or That can find me by number.
One of the most critical parameters to activate is profile pins, which will facilitate the maintenance of account data even when you transfer the devices and protect your contact lists, profile information, settings, etc. You can configure one when you join or go to Confidentiality > Pin In your application settings to define or modify yours at any time. The introduction of pins has been controversial among the Hard-Liners in cryptography, which questioned Whether it was the so -called secure recovery, they were linked to the potential vulnerabilities introduced. This did not help this signal first made the pins compulsory. You can undress now by going to Pinch screen and tapping Select moreSO Deactivate the spindle. Remember that if you do, you will not be able to provide your contacts with you to a new device, and sensitive account information can be more vulnerable.
Finally, once you have configured your PIN code, activate Recording lock going to Parameters > Account and switch to Recording lock. With this activated function, the attackers will not be able to resume your account and save it on a new device of the way they did it via the Twilio hack mentioned above.
Protect your screen
It is important to ensure that what is happening in the signal remains in the signal. This means preventing people from seeing what you do there from a lock screen or when you change applications. There is not many points to have an application for sensitive messages if they just appear on your screen each time you receive one.
To deactivate the signal locking screen notifications on iOS, access your phone Parameters > NotificationsThen scroll down and press Signal > Display over > Never. On Android, the process is similar. Of your home screen, head to ParametersSO Applications and notificationswhere you can deactivate all notifications. If you need more granular control, you can see in the Signal Application itself, where the steps are the same regardless of the platform on which you are. Press your profile, then NotificationsSO To showwhere you can choose to display the name, content and actions for incoming text; Just the name; Or nothing at all. You can also notifications spurred for a specific conversation for a defined time by pressing a message thread, then in contact header, then Mute. You can silence the notifications of a contact for an hour, a day, a week or a year.
