New Signal update lets you change your phone number without losing chats and groups

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New Signal update lets you change your phone number without losing chats and groups
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The latest Signal update brings a long-awaited and quite useful feature.

Secure chat app Signal has been working on enriching the user experience with some quite useful updates recently. A new update to the popular encrypted instant messaging app will now make it possible for you to change the registered phone number without losing current chats,Signal gets a long-anticipated feature that allows you to change phone number and still keep conversations

As some of you may probably know, Signal conversations are end-to-end encrypted, and because of that, the app links the user's chats to their phone number, and chats are not synchronized to the cloud for privacy reasons . However, if the user needs to change their phone number, all conversations from the previous number are lost.

That's where the latest Signal update comes in. The messaging app is now introducing a new way to let you update your phone number without having to create a new account and thus lose all your chats and conversation history, as well as profile information and groups.will work if you're keeping your existing phone, but just getting a new number.

If you want to change the phone number registered in your Signal account, you must have access to both the old and new phone numbers. That is needed so you can confirm the change. On top of that, you will need to have the old number enabled on Signal before you can update your account. Once the change has been made, all your Signal contacts will be notified about it in their respective chat window with you.

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