Signal Outage Map
The map below depicts the most recent cities worldwide where Signal users have reported problems and outages. If you are having an issue with Signal, make sure to submit a report below
The heatmap above shows where the most recent user-submitted and social media reports are geographically clustered. The density of these reports is depicted by the color scale as shown below.
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Multimedia
Signal is a cross-platform encrypted messaging service. It uses the Internet to send one-to-one and group messages, which can include files, voice notes, images and videos. It can also be used to make one-to-one and group voice and video calls.
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Most Affected Locations
Outage reports and issues in the past 15 days originated from:
| Location | Reports |
|---|---|
| Berlin, Land Berlin | 10 |
| Paris, Île-de-France | 9 |
| Bengaluru, KA | 6 |
| Frankfurt am Main, Hessen | 5 |
| Hyderabad, TG | 5 |
| Madrid, Comunidad de Madrid | 5 |
| Munich, Bavaria | 5 |
| Leipzig, Saxony | 4 |
| Hannover, Lower Saxony | 4 |
| Zürich, ZH | 4 |
| Noida, UP | 4 |
| Jewar, UP | 3 |
| Vienna, Wien | 3 |
| Makati City, National Capital Region | 3 |
| Helsinki, Uusimaa | 3 |
| Warsaw, Województwo Mazowieckie | 3 |
| Köln, NRW | 3 |
| Bordeaux, Nouvelle-Aquitaine | 3 |
| Bucharest, București | 3 |
| Milan, Lombardia | 2 |
| New Delhi, NCT | 2 |
| Dublin, Leinster | 2 |
| Bratislava, Bratislava | 2 |
| Istanbul, İstanbul | 2 |
| Barcelona, Catalunya | 2 |
| Miami, FL | 2 |
| Bochum, NRW | 2 |
| Sevilla, Andalucía | 2 |
| Essen, NRW | 2 |
| New York City, NY | 2 |
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Signal Issues Reports
Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:
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🤠 Southern Wolf 🐺
(@TheSouthWolf) reported
@signalapp Y'all deserve all the flak you're getting for making this terrible decision. This is a really quick way to lost a good number of Android users, who I'm gonna guess make up the largest share of your user base. Perhaps a reconsideration is in order, #Signal?
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Aaron Toponce ⚛️
(@AaronToponce) reported
@TychoTithonus @signalapp Maybe the problem isn't Signal supporting SMS, but the false evangelical argument: you can use both SMS and Signal in one app on Android. Where instead, the argument should have been: we need to stop using insecure SMS.
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yoro
(@yorotpidus) reported
@anAamAadmi @signalapp Might have been taken from the fork that Signal stopped maintaining, so don't think there's a problem unless they are piggybacking on their branding.
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Fongaboo
(@fongaboo) reported
@signalapp You knew that having to register for ANOTHER service with ANOTHER username and password and then having to trade that with other users was going to minimize adoption.
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Envision ⚡️🔑
(@EnvisionBitcoin) reported
@signalapp Unless you're removing phone numbers, there's literally no reason to remove SMS from the android app. If people can't figure out that one bubble and a gray send button are SMS, and 2 bubbles and a blue send button is encrypted, they have bigger problems.......
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Damselfly - Free Photo library software 📷
(@DamselflyPhotos) reported
@ElJefeDSecurIT @signalapp It's literally an option already, disabled by default. If you want to use signal for SMS, you have to configure it explicitly and then set it as the default SMS client for Android. The problem is that Signal can't (be arsed to) design the UI to separate SMS and encrypted msgs.
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@mahmoudajawad@mastodon.online
(@mahmoud_ajawad) reported
@nixcraft @WhatsApp @signalapp Signal is no saint unfortunately. Much of the promises made when the big whatsapp migration started are broken already. Unfortunately there's nothing to match whatsapp now except sms, or moving people off texting to communicating over protocols such as matrix.
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Eric Schultz
(@wwahammy) reported
@olmaverick @signalapp I'm sympathetic to that too. But, I don't remember anything changing in that area for a long time. So is this an intractable problem? I'm skeptical it is.
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Chris Ely 🌻⚛☢️💉😷🗳️ | #EndDST
(@tcely) reported
@TACIXAT @signalapp Apple doesn't allow that. Would you pay for a SMS service that Signal could reach out to over the web?
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Mark McAndrew
(@markmcan) reported
@signalapp If privacy and security are really the issue, then it should never have had SMS support in the first place. Not impressed
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Jaaaaaayyyyy
(@zerojay) reported
@lookdumbass @mer__edith @signalapp "Just ask them all to switch to Signal!" This was terrible when Tim Cook of Apple was asked about adding RCS support to iMessage and this is exactly the same taste in my mouth from Signal. Also, RCS isn't coming. It's already been here for ages and already is a flop.
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Royce Williams
(@TychoTithonus) reported
@AaronToponce @signalapp At the core, Signal has a user empathy problem. Many UX problems on GitHub devolve into the team locking the thread. I appreciate the idealism, but they need UX that takes that as a constraint with empathy. "Security at the expense of usability comes at the expense of security."
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phillip
(@phillipopfer) reported
@deviantollam @signalapp I have been having issues with signal if my phone is in any power saver mode.
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☠spooky scary skelemav☠
(@olmaverick) reported
@wwahammy @signalapp In point of fact I have never used signal for SMS, in the early days of the standalone app the UI was really terrible, and I avoided it for anything but secure messages. It kept getting better but by then I really like the idea that I had a secure box and an insecure box.
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Aaron Toponce ⚛️
(@AaronToponce) reported
@TychoTithonus @signalapp I'm not familiar with the GitHub issue thread locking problems, but I'll happily criticize how they handled Mobilecoin.
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