Replying to Dan

Even if you’re using a private messaging app like #Signal:

- All your messages show up on your iPhone/Android in your notifications.

- All notifications are sent through Apple’s servers in the case of iPhone, and Google’s servers in the case of Android.

Does this mean Apple and/or Google can read all your messages?

#asknostr #privacy
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Jimmy 1y ago

I'm not sure about Apple but on Android the only notification Signal gets is a "wake up" that tells it to go and retrieve a message from the server. There is also the ability to turn off displaying message content in the drop-down which I advise all to do.

So no, Google can't read your Signal messages.

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Dan 1y ago

This doesn’t seem to be true. Signal message contents show up in the notifications on Android.

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Jimmy 1y ago

Yes, but it's not received unencrypted. It's only displayed locally. In addition, that setting can be turned off from within Signal. See screenshot: