Personal messaging app Sign plans to discontinue the power for Android customers to ship and obtain plaintext SMS and MMS messages with the Sign app.
The app developer cited its precedence of offering safety and privateness to customers for the choice — in addition to defending customers from shock messaging payments from their cell suppliers and offering an general extra streamlined and clear person expertise.
“An important cause for us to take away SMS assist from Android is that plaintext SMS messages are inherently insecure. They leak delicate metadata and place your information within the arms of telecommunications corporations. With privateness and safety on the coronary heart of what we do, letting a deeply insecure messaging protocol have a spot within the Sign interface is inconsistent with our values and with what individuals count on after they open Sign,” the cell messaging app supplier wrote in a put up late final week.
The phaseout will happen over the subsequent few months, and Android Sign customers will obtain notifications on learn how to export SMS messages and choose a default SMS messenger, in addition to learn how to invite customers to Sign who texted them through SMS.
