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The "tied to your phone number" thing is weird for me, both Telegram and Signal. If you want to change your phone number, how do these platforms handle it? Do
by bravura 6y ago
The "tied to your phone number" thing is weird for me, both Telegram and Signal.
If you want to change your phone number, how do these platforms handle it? Do your contacts get updated or what? What happens to people with your old number?
If your phone breaks, and you get a new one, how do they handle backups? (My iPhone's WhatsApp backups somehow disappeared when I got a droid.)
These questions are particularly infuriating for digital nomads and people living abroad. I want an inexpensive cheap way to keep my US number I've had for 10 years. I've also heard horror stories that Google Voice (or Fi? Can't figure it out) will shut down your account if you live internationally.
- JustinGarrison 6y agoI have a link in the post on how to use a twilio number instead of your real phone number. Signal PINS is the first step to making non-phone number identification work. https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007059792-Signal-PIN https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007059792-Si...
- mynameisash 6y agoI have no idea about phone number changes (I've had the same phone number for 20 years), but my phone broke not terribly long ago and I had to reinstall everything. As I recall, my Signal data came back just fine. Looks like you have to enable it[0], so I assume that's what I did. > The "tied to your phone number" thing is weird for me, both Telegram and Signal. Isn't this restriction also applicable to WhatsApp? [0] https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007059752-Backup-and-Restore-Messages#android_enable https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007059752-Ba...