Moving from WhatsApp to Signal is an important action, right now. WhatsApp’s parent company, Meta, has been involved in several cases of election interference: America in 2016, Trinidad and Tobago …
First, signal doesn’t come anywhere close in feature parity.
Second, the CEO (disingenuously) stated they dropped SMS support because of engineering costs - , I don’t trust them.
There are free SMS apps, because your app hasn’t handled SMS ever, you just use the SMS API. Android itself handles it all - as of about 2012, all apps were required to use a single SMS database.
First, signal doesn’t come anywhere close in feature parity.
Second, the CEO (disingenuously) stated they dropped SMS support because of engineering costs - , I don’t trust them.
There are free SMS apps, because your app hasn’t handled SMS ever, you just use the SMS API. Android itself handles it all - as of about 2012, all apps were required to use a single SMS database.
SMS? Outside the USA it’s used for almost nothing but 2FA codes at this point.
I thought they removed SMS so as to not give the impression that SMS is at all private or secure