Edit Message

Now you can edit a message even after it has been sent! Fix a tpyo, include the missing ingredient in grandma’s chocolate chip cookie recipe, or add the punchline to a joke if you hit the send button too quickly. The choice is yours.

Messages will always show when they have been edited, and you can tap on the “Edited” indicator to see the full edit history for any edited messages.

Update the past in the present to prevent future confusion today!

Got this today on Signal beta. Editing is one feature I really wanted in Signal.

Anyone else got it?

  • On
    24•7 months ago

    This is great news. usernames next, lets goooo

    • HMNEnglish
      5•7 months ago

      If you’re really worried about giving out your number, you can use virtual / temporary number. Just keep in mind it complicates backups and transferring to a new phone, etc. Puts into perspective if it’s worth the hassle. Or maybe you just want usernames? 😅

      • Free Palestine 🇵🇸English
        2•7 months ago

        Cloaked works pretty well for anonymous Signal registration. They give you a VOIP number that actually works on Signal, and you don’t have to give them any personal data to sign up. It also works behind a VPN.

      • @[email protected]English
        1•7 months ago

        This is workable. Especially if work profile so you can run signal twice. If you use open source signal builds, you can run Molly in the same profile. So it’s pretty trivial to get four different signal clients running in each profile, so you could have eight total on an Android phone.

        Just a little inconvenient:)

    • Avid AmoebaOPEnglish
      11•7 months ago

      No, just enroll in the Beta on the Play Store.

      • 18-24-61-B-17-17-4English
        5•7 months ago

        Not seeing it there.

        EDIT: j/k, yes I do. Turns out I just had to open my eyes. Derp.

    • @[email protected]English
      8•7 months ago

      Wouldn’t that be the opposite of privacy? I decide I didn’t want you seeing something after all, but fuck me?

      • @[email protected]English
        7•7 months ago

        There are already signal clients that don’t honor the delete request anyway, so from a privacy perspective you cant guarantee delete anyway, so its giving people a false sense of security, at best.

        Here is a signal client that lets you ignore deletes: https://github.com/johanw666/Signal-Android … Also, view once messages don’t disappear, use your own map provider, database passphrase, custom backups. I don’t really suggest anyone use this fork, molly.im is better, but its illustrative that capabilities are out there, and its more privacy and security focused to not mislead people about capabilities.

  • @[email protected]English
    5•7 months ago

    How can you securely edit messages if they’re not stored anywhere except the sending and receiving devices?..

    • Avid AmoebaOPEnglish
      9•7 months ago

      Same as sending or deleting messages. An edit is just another message that the clients interpret differently. They modify a previous message instead of showing it as a new one.