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Apptopia now estimates Signal has more than 600 million active monthly users.

It saw another surge in January 2021 after WhatsApp, which end-to-end encrypts personal chats using the Signal Protocol, botched the messaging around a privacy policy update. In May 2020, as police brutality protests swept US cities, daily Signal downloads nearly tripled from their average, according to analytics company Apptopia.

Signal’s popularity often spikes in times of strife or when alternatives seem more precarious. And thanks in part to a $50 million infusion in 2018 from Brian Acton, the former WhatsApp CEO and current interim Signal Foundation CEO, the once niche app is more accessible than ever. Wade, Signal represents most people’s best way to communicate safely. Whether it’s to protect sensitive conversations amid social unrest or to keep your communications private after the fall of Roe v. Try disabling or modifying VPN or firewall, whatever is limiting Signal’s connection to the internet.In times of uncertainty, people rightly often turn to the encrypted messaging app Signal. If that doesn’t solve the problem, see if a firewall or VPN is causing the issue. You will find permissions allowed to Signal in Android Settings > Apps and Notifications > Signal > App Permissions. If your message is stuck with the sending status and is not being delivered or you are not receiving messages, the first thing you need to do is check if the app has the necessary permissions to run the app. Not able to send or receive messages on Signal?

Select ‘Reset Secure session’ and this will fix the issue.

Tap on the menu icon in the top right corner.

Go to the chat where you are getting the “Out of Sync” error.

On Android if you see "Bad encrypted message," tap the menu in the top-right & tap "Reset secure session." On iOS tap the "Reset Session" button below "Received message was out of sync." The errors do not affect chat security & will be automatically fixed in the next app update.