Alot of my friends use Snapchat for messaging but it’s really annoying needing to laggily enable the camera every time the app opens. Anyone know a way to make it think it has the camera on but not actually or something? (if you just revoke the camera permission it stops you from using the app entirely)
Signal also did something that angered its userbase by removing SMS support, so now it’s harder than ever to try to convert people to Signal.
Can’t you just use your normal SMS app?
Do you understand the reasoning for the removal?
Yes, but it’s easier to sell Signal to tech illiterate family members if I tell them “It’s a new text app that lets you talk with people with both Android and Iphone” instead of having them groan “Oh no it’s another messaging app I have to install”.
I saw that, really unfortunate too. And now with the creator leaving signal entirely I don’t see it getting better on that front.
There are a handful of other options out there, but good luck getting more than a small percentage of your contacts to switch to it.
Several of my family members quit Signal after they got rid of SMS, I understand the logic behind the change but now I only have a couple of people that still use it.