CyberPeace Academy | A TO Z privacy settings of Signal App

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Tips to make you're messaging more secure and hassle-free.

1. Password Protect the App (Or Use Biometrics): The first is "Screen lock," which requires you to authenticate yourself to access the app either using the fingerprint/face scanner or your lock screen code. You can adjust the time before the app gets locked and requires authentication using "Screen lock inactivity timeout."

2. Block Screenshots: This feature blocks previewing the app in your recent apps list (multitasking screen). On Android, it also prevents you from taking any screenshots in Signal. It doesn't prevent those you communicate with from taking a screenshot, but it could protect you against a malware app that somehow finds a way to hack your device and take screenshots without you knowing.

3. Hide What You Type (Android): Because Android users can take advantage of third-party keyboards, Signal includes another privacy feature, "Incognito keyboard." This feature protects Gboard (or other keyboard apps that use the proper APIs) from learning how you text. Since keyboard apps must capture each word you input by nature, this protects your conversation from being read by a malicious app.

4. Protect your IP address during Voice and Video Calls: Signal not only lets you send messages but lets you make voice and video calls as well, providing the same level of protection as text-based messages. When someone initiates a video call on Signal, your video isn’t automatically turned on when you pick up. You accept the call, then turn on your camera. However, voice calls can reveal your IP address to the caller on the other end. When you enable the "Always relay calls" toggle in Signal's Privacy menu, all calls first go through Signal's servers, protecting your real IP address in the case of a leak.

5. Send Disappearing Messages in Signal: When a disappearing message is sent, it converts all future messages in that conversation to disappearing messages. These are messages sent with an expiration date that you assign before sending. Once set, the message will be deleted upon reaching the determined time length.

6. View-once media: This mobile-only feature automatically removes a photo or video from a conversation once it has been viewed. From the main app page, tap the camera icon. Take a photo or select one from your library. At the bottom left of the screen, tap to switch the infinity-symbol icon to the “1x” icon.

Signal even lets their users monitor privacy on their own. As all the code of the app is open-source, so anyone can look at how the app is written. While that doesn't mean hackers can break Signal's encryption (which is virtually uncrackable), it does mean security experts and users can check that Signal is maintaining the high privacy standards it says it is. Signal seems like a better and safer alternative to other messengers in the market.

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