Signal on Android beta now allows users to set customized nicknames for their contacts, and add contact notes to help with remembering.
This update comes a couple of months after the platform rolled out unique usernames for everyone and other features to secure chats. Nicknames and contact notes are available only for Android beta users currently and will be rolling out to iOS later.
Contact Nicknames on Signal
While Signal is one of the best privacy-focused messengers out there, it’s not the most aesthetic one to communicate on. The platform has a lot of hard UI elements that make it a boring app for fun chats.
Thus, to change that narrative, Signal is adding new features to ease your experience on the platform. This week, the company added support for nicknames and contact notes for Android beta users, allowing them to tune their contacts as desired.
Now in beta on Android & Desktop, coming soon to iOS:
Save custom nicknames & notes for anyone you’re chatting with on Signal, even if they aren’t in your phone’s contacts. Useful for adding missing letters in a lazy friend’s profile name or a reminder about where you met. pic.twitter.com/RwILtX3Y2a
— Signal (@signalapp) April 9, 2024
While nicknames are self-explanatory, contact notes can be set for those who’re not in your Signal chats too. This way, you’ll be able to recognise them better, and quicker. These features are currently available for Signal Android users in the beta channel, and may rollout to iOS counterparts later.
If you’re interested and want to try this out, join the Android beta channel here. But if you’re on iOS and signed up for the beta in the past, you should see this update roll out in the near future.
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