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Settings > Notifications > Notification Content > Show: "Name Only" or "No Name or Content" I've had this enabled to prevent sensitive messages from appearing
by jonpalmisc 7mo ago
Settings > Notifications > Notification Content > Show: "Name Only" or "No Name or Content"
I've had this enabled to prevent sensitive messages from appearing in full whilst showing someone something on my phone, but I guess this is an added benefit as well.
- jhalstead 7mo agoFwiw, in my Signal app on Android this setting is in Settings > Notifications > Messages > Show
- wolvoleo 7mo agoMy Samsung also keeps a history of notification content. Under Settings->Notifications ->Advanced -> Notification History
- tialaramex 7mo agoHowever, if this is important to you then you want Signal to stop telling Android to make the notifications. If it doesn't exist nobody will accidentally make it available. Deleting that history is good to know about after the fact, but preferably lets just not create the problem.
- wolvoleo 7mo agoI need the notifications though. But you can set them without content. That actually works with signal because all it sends through Google Firebase is a notification to wake up the app. If you have the content turned on the app basically fills the content in the notification locally. But you can turn that off.
- embedding-shape 7mo agoI guess enabling Lockdown mode might avoid this particular issue too, together with a bunch of other stuff?
- everdrive 7mo agoWhy would lockdown mode prevent this? I have lockdown mode on but that doesn't automatically make my notifications private.
- giancarlostoro 7mo agoMaybe it should.
- embedding-shape 7mo agoIt's a mode of the phone that is supposed to prevent cyber attacks, more so than "normal mode" I suppose, since it's supposed to limit features in the name of security. This seems like a variant of such attack, so seems like it should protect against it
- jonpalmisc 7mo agoThere is a documented list of things that Lockdown Mode affects [1], this is not one of the advertised ones. There are a bunch of other (undocumented) things it affects (some of which are bugs :/), but I don't believe it has any affect on notification storage. [1] https://support.apple.com/en-us/105120 https://support.apple.com/en-us/105120
- normie3000 7mo agoMostly it seems the documentation is vague. Is there anything clearer than this? > Web browsing: Certain complex web technologies are blocked, which might cause some websites to load more slowly or not operate correctly. In addition, web fonts might not be displayed, and images might be replaced with a missing image icon.
- rustyhancock 7mo agoLockdown mode would prevent access to the data in theory. But most likely (pure speculation mind you), this was a case of someone handing over the phone for review and where cooperating. It might have been that they deleted signal some time ago, or even deleted signal and then handed over the phone. It's notable that the data wasn't recovered from signals storage (was the data securely erased or that kind of recovery not attempted?).
- nickburns 7mo agoJust to clarify, this is within the Signal app settings—not the OS (iOS or Android) system settings. Critical distinction, as merely changing OS notification settings will simply prevent notification content from being displayed on-screen.
- JumpCrisscross 7mo agoSignal should switch the default to being less verbose.
- nickburns 7mo agoThe default should be "No name or content".
- JumpCrisscross 7mo agoName only strikes me as a fairer compromise between security and usability.
- loeg 7mo agoI thought name-only was the default.
- JumpCrisscross 7mo ago> I thought name-only was the default At least for me, it was name and content.
- loeg 7mo agoI may be misremembering, or it may have changed; I've been using Signal from the early days.
- fragmede 7mo agousers should switch to simpleX
- deleted 7mo ago[deleted]
- cdrnsf 7mo agoDisable Apple Intelligence summaries for sensitive app notifications too.
- huxley 7mo agoGiven the quality of the summaries, you might want to keep them just for plausible deniability </s>
- Night_Thastus 7mo agoThis seems to be the default for me, at least on Android.
- izacus 7mo agoAndroid also supports custom encrypted payloads so Signal doesn't have to give them to Google.
- echelon_musk 7mo agoWhatsApp supports this too. Settings > Notifications > Show preview
- SwtCyber 7mo agoOriginally enabled it just to avoid awkward moments
- kwanbix 7mo agoI allway say it: it is the defaults, stupid (paraphrasign). The Defaults have to be the most sensitive ones. If you are a supposed super secure app, this should be the default.