How to Enhance the Security of Signal at its Best

Post date: Feb 23, 2021 8:43:43 AM

The Signal messaging application is nowadays very popular among youngsters and social media geeks. The major benefit of using Signal is that it is full of security and privacy. You can customize your security level as per your desire. In this article, we are going to show you how you can make your Signal chats even more protected and secured. This will help you keep your conversation 100% private and encrypted.

The Signal application comes with standard end to end encryption, allowing users to achieve more privacy than other ordinary social chatting applications. However, if you want top notch security for your conversations, then end to end encryption won't be enough for you. You can set up even more security layers on your Signal application to make it even more or private.

Let's learn how to enhance the security on Signal.

Improving the Signal App Privacy

There are a few methods to enhance the security of this app. We have given all methods below here:

1. Turn On Registration Lock for Signal Account

The first step to secure your Signal account is by putting the Registration Lock on your Signal app user account. By locking your user account, you will prevent other potential attackers from getting your account access.

Generally, the Signal user account is linked to the user's phone number and logins to your account using the phone number. You don't have to enter a password to access your account, so the internet attackers won't need the password when they try to capture your account. If someone gets access to your phone number, they will be able to use your account. Therefore you should secure your account using the registration lock process. This will enable a pin on your account and every time you log into your account you will need to enter the pin.

If you enable registration lock on your Signal account, nobody would be able to access your account without entering a pin that you will set. If you wish to set up this registration lock, then simply follow the instructions that we have provided here:

1. Open the Signal application on your equipment.

2. Click on your profile picture located on the upper left corner of your smartphone.

3. Select the privacy option.

4. Select the registration lock option.

5. You will see a notice on your screen telling you that you could lock your account by forgetting your pin.

6. Just continue on your screen and then enable the registration lock.

7. Carefully enter the pin and then remember it.

8. Now you will need to enter this pin whenever you set up the Signal app on your phone.

9. Congratulations, your Signal app is now more secure than ever.

2. Check Who Talks to You

Signal enables its users to check who they are speaking to using a group of codes, which are called safety numbers. So you can actually use these numbers to check who you are chatting with.

To detect who is chatting with you, simply click on the contact name from the conversation's upper controls.

After that, choose the option that reads, View Safety Number.

Now you can check the numbers that appear on your screen to see that you both are talking securely and there is no one between you. This way, you can detect any suspicious activity during your conversations.

That's how are you improve the privacy and security on your Signal social texting app. We hope you have found this article beneficial and practical.