Signal-Desktop

We're introducing new ways to keep your phone number private on Signal.

• Your phone number will no longer be visible to anyone on the latest version of Signal unless they have it saved in their phone’s contacts. You can change this in Settings.
• You can now set and share an optional username to let people chat with you without giving them your phone number.
• A new privacy setting lets you control who can find you by your phone number on Signal.

• Video and audio playback will now pause whenever the Signal window is closed and minimized in the system tray. If you’re looking for silence, X marks the spot.
• By popular demand, emoticons like “:-)” now automatically become emoji like “🙂” — but if this makes you “:-(“ you can disable this feature in the “Chats” section of your Signal Desktop settings

• If you spend a lot of time trying to pick out the perfect emoji reaction for every situation, you'll be 🎉 to know that we fixed a bug with typing indicators that sometimes caused the emoji selection box to disappear while you were in the middle of pondering your choices.
• Signal will now match your selected title bar color on Microsoft Windows. When all of your windows in Windows look the same, that's a common theme.

• Video and audio playback will now pause whenever the Signal window is closed and minimized in the system tray. If you’re looking for silence, X marks the spot.
• By popular demand, emoticons like “:-)” now automatically become emoji like “🙂” — but if this makes you “:-(“ you can disable this feature in the “Chats” section of your Signal Desktop settings

• Video and audio playback will now pause whenever the Signal window is closed and minimized in the system tray. If you’re looking for silence, X marks the spot.
• By popular demand, emoticons like “:-)” now automatically become emoji like “🙂” — but if this makes you “:-(“ you can disable this feature in the “Chats” section of your Signal Desktop settings

• If you spend a lot of time trying to pick out the perfect emoji reaction for every situation, you'll be 🎉 to know that we fixed a bug with typing indicators that sometimes caused the emoji selection box to disappear while you were in the middle of pondering your choices.
• Signal will now match your selected title bar color on Microsoft Windows. When all of your windows in Windows look the same, that's a common theme.

• If you spend a lot of time trying to pick out the perfect emoji reaction for every situation, you'll be 🎉 to know that we fixed a bug with typing indicators that sometimes caused the emoji selection box to disappear while you were in the middle of pondering your choices.
• Signal will now match your selected title bar color on Microsoft Windows. When all of your windows in Windows look the same, that's a common theme.

• If you spend a lot of time trying to pick out the perfect emoji reaction for every situation, you'll be 🎉 to know that we fixed a bug with typing indicators that sometimes caused the emoji selection box to disappear while you were in the middle of pondering your choices.
• Signal will now match your selected title bar color on Microsoft Windows. When all of your windows in Windows look the same, that's a common theme.

• The default fonts for Urdu have been updated for improved readability when that language is selected (Signal Settings > Appearance > Language). Thanks, @asakpke!

• The default fonts for Urdu have been updated for improved readability when that language is selected (Signal Settings > Appearance > Language). Thanks, @asakpke!

• Now you can optionally turn emoticons into emoji. If you want to “🙂” whenever you type “:-)”, you can enable this feature in the “Chats” section of your Signal Desktop settings.
• A new keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+s/Cmd+s) helps you quickly save pictures and videos from the media viewer.
• It’s too bad that we already made a New Year's Resolution joke in the release notes for the last update, because we just increased the maximum resolution for screen sharing during Signal video calls. Our new resolution is to avoid any resolution puns until 2025.
• Thanks to @dasois and @pelya for their contributions to this release!

• The default fonts for Urdu have been updated for improved readability when that language is selected (Signal Settings > Appearance > Language). Thanks, @asakpke!

• Now you can optionally turn emoticons into emoji. If you want to “🙂” whenever you type “:-)”, you can enable this feature in the “Chats” section of your Signal Desktop settings.
• A new keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+s/Cmd+s) helps you quickly save pictures and videos from the media viewer.
• It’s too bad that we already made a New Year's Resolution joke in the release notes for the last update, because we just increased the maximum resolution for screen sharing during Signal video calls. Our new resolution is to avoid any resolution puns until 2025.
• Thanks to @dasois and @pelya for their contributions to this release!

• Now you can optionally turn emoticons into emoji. If you want to “🙂” whenever you type “:-)”, you can enable this feature in the “Chats” section of your Signal Desktop settings.
• A new keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+s/Cmd+s) helps you quickly save pictures and videos from the media viewer.
• It’s too bad that we already made a New Year's Resolution joke in the release notes for the last update, because we just increased the maximum resolution for screen sharing during Signal video calls. Our new resolution is to avoid any resolution puns until 2025.
• Thanks to @dasois and @pelya for their contributions to this release!

• If resolving a few small bugs counts as a New Year’s resolution, then 2024 is off to a fantastic start.
• Region-neutral font fallback logic improves how CJK characters are displayed across different locales.
• Thanks to @0o001, @hackerbirds, @rschiang, @vijithassar, and @yaslama for their contributions to this release!

• Now you can optionally turn emoticons into emoji. If you want to “🙂” whenever you type “:-)”, you can enable this feature in the “Chats” section of your Signal Desktop settings.
• A new keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+s/Cmd+s) helps you quickly save pictures and videos from the media viewer.
• It’s too bad that we already made a New Year's Resolution joke in the release notes for the last update, because we just increased the maximum resolution for screen sharing during Signal video calls. Our new resolution is to avoid any resolution puns until 2025.
• Thanks to @dasois and @pelya for their contributions to this release!

• If resolving a few small bugs counts as a New Year’s resolution, then 2024 is off to a fantastic start.
• Region-neutral font fallback logic improves how CJK characters are displayed across different locales.
• Thanks to @0o001, @hackerbirds, @rschiang, @vijithassar, and @yaslama for their contributions to this release!

• If resolving a few small bugs counts as a New Year’s resolution, then 2024 is off to a fantastic start.
• Region-neutral font fallback logic improves how CJK characters are displayed across different locales.
• Thanks to @0o001, @hackerbirds, @rschiang, @vijithassar, and @yaslama for their contributions to this release!

• Turn a missed call into something that won't be missed. Now you can right-click on any call event and delete it from a chat.
• The default font for Persian has been updated to Vazirmatn to improve readability when that language is selected (Signal Settings > Appearance > Language). Thanks, @MahdiNazemi!
• The playback speed indicators in voice messages have a slightly new look. X marks the spot. Thanks, @Shrinks99!
• We would also like to thank @NetSysFire, @timjamello, and @u32i64 for their contributions to this release.

• If resolving a few small bugs counts as a New Year’s resolution, then 2024 is off to a fantastic start.
• Region-neutral font fallback logic improves how CJK characters are displayed across different locales.
• Thanks to @0o001, @hackerbirds, @rschiang, @vijithassar, and @yaslama for their contributions to this release!