a secure and accessible chating app on ios please?

By Ramy, 21 November, 2024

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iOS and iPadOS

Hello all:
am using Whatsapp to chat with all my friends even my clients,
but am using Signal to chat with just my GF,
but i do not like signal accessibility, so, does anyone know a better app than signal, that very secure for anyone to know and also to be accessible even more than Whatsapp?

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By Ayub Abraham Flores on Thursday, November 21, 2024 - 23:35

Hi there,

You might want to consider using Local Chat.

By Tyler on Friday, November 22, 2024 - 02:02

Member of the AppleVis Editorial Team

What specific security features are you looking for, on what devices? If both you and your GF use Apple devices to communicate, you should be able to use iMessage and FaceTime, which include features like end-to-end encryption and contact key verification, among other things.

One thing to note about iMessage on iOS and iPadOS, however, is that by default, messages are backed up as part of your iPhone or iPad's iCloud backup, so to ensure that the backup is also end-to-end encrypted, you must enable Advanced Data Protection in Settings (System Settings on macOS) > [your name] > iCloud > Advanced Data Protection. For more information about this feature, check out the Apple Support article "How to turn on Advanced Data Protection for iCloud." Alternatively, if you don't want your messages to be backed up in iCloud at all, you can remove Messages from the backup in Settings > [your name] > iCloud > iCloud Backup > [your device name], and toggling the "Messages" switch off.

HTH

By tunmi13 on Friday, November 22, 2024 - 05:49

Signal and/or iMessage are probably your best bet. I'd say Telegram, but compared to the Android version the iOS version's accessibility is quite lacking.