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Can you use Signal across multiple devices?

• joecool1029 11mo ago
  Officially it supports linking other devices like their desktop app as a secondary. I currently use this to link into signal-mautrix on my matrix homeserver. This way I can access signal from multiple phones and multiple computers using a matrix client instead.
  • BrenBarn 11mo ago
    But you still need one "primary" device and it has to be a phone, right? That's different from Matrix where you can have arbitrary devices that are all on an equal footing.
    • grishka 11mo ago
      Yes. And, annoyingly, when you only use Signal occasionally, these desktop sessions expire. And you have to link again. And when you do, you end up with a gap in your conversation history because "security".
    • int_19h 11mo ago
      Yes, and there's also a limit of max 5 linked devices.
• jeroenhd 11mo ago
  You can use Molly to put Signal on multiple devices or you can bridge it into Matrix or XMPP, but you'll always need to run on one "main" device.