Change phone number in Signal without data loss

Signal now offers the option to change your Signal account phone number without losing all your chats, profile information and groups. This way you can continue to use Signal without having to re-register for a new account.

New phone, same Signal account

Signal does not make automatic (online) backups for security reasons, but you can manually enable local storage of backups. That’s how you do it. If you get a new phone, you can easily restore those backups to your new phone. If you now (in addition to your new phone) take a new number, you previously had to register with Signal again. As a result, you lost your chats, profile information and groups.

Signal now reports on its blog that that is a thing of the past: “If you keep your existing phone, but get a new number, you can now use the feature change number keep your profile and all your existing messages and groups on your device, while still being reachable on your new phone number.”

When someone changes their phone number on Signal, you’ll see a message in the conversation with that phone indicating that their number has changed. Do you want to change your number in Signal? Then go to the function change number in the app’s account settings. Make sure you have the latest version of the app, otherwise the function will not be visible.

Signal also informs you that in addition to the function change number more new messaging app features coming soon.

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Do you use Signal, have you landed at Telegram or do you prefer to use WhatsApp – possibly in combination with Signal or Telegram? Let us know in the comments at the bottom of this article.