With news this week of the messaging app being used to discuss war plans, we get you up to speed on what Signal should be ...

Signal is a messaging app that uses end-to-end encryption to keep your messages private — not even the company that makes the ...

which ensures your messages and other content cannot be previewed in the app switcher if your phone ends up in the wrong hands. Thanks to an image-blurring tool, you can even protect the privacy ...

WhatsApp uses Signal's encryption protocol, so your chats and calls are just as end-to-end encrypted as those on Signal. But ...

WhatsApp uses the Signal Protocol (see above), meaning it offers a reliably secure form of protection for messages by default. One problem with WhatsApp is that, while the content of your messages may ...

Feeling sender's remorse? Google Messages has been working on the ability to remotely delete texts, and we've got a preview.

Unlike other popular messaging apps, Signal is operated by a non-profit called the Signal Technology Foundation rather than a for-profit tech giant like Meta, which owns popular messaging apps like ...

Used correctly, Signal has the most robust privacy credentials of any major messaging app. It has the most layers of security at both the front-end and back-end. Messages themselves are deeply ...