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The interesting thing is that it is possible to share the account on multiple devices, as long as only one of those is a phone. You can sign in to and chat from
by Vinnl 3y ago
The interesting thing is that it is possible to share the account on multiple devices, as long as only one of those is a phone. You can sign in to and chat from that account just fine on the desktop app, even if your phone is off.
(I guess theoretically you could run something like PostmarketOS on a phone to run the desktop app, but you know what I mean.)
- HumblyTossed 3y agoMy current work-around is just to use a group chat and have both work and personal accounts part of the chat. Fortunately, I only need to be able to chat with a few people (family) while off with the work phone so this isn't that big of a hassle, but it's something I wish I didn't have to do.
- sgarman 3y agoYeah, this is still my top requested feature. I have two phones, one is data only sim. I just want to be able to signal from both of them just like how I can on my mac and PC.
- busymom0 3y ago> as long as only one of those is a phone Do you know why this limitation?
- Vinnl 3y agoUnfortunately I don't. If I were to guess, I'd expect it's just a matter of the engineering hours that would need to be invested not being worth it at this time, given how few people they expect to need it.
- JoshTriplett 3y agoThat's useful but not quite sufficient for this use case, though. The different devices currently have no way to sync chat history, so you'd lose all your old chats. What I'd love to have is the ability to connect my phone and my laptop to the same Signal account, have them automatically sync chat history between each other, and then in the future if I add a new phone (e.g. because I've upgraded) my phone can sync from my laptop and get all of my message history.