What are your thoughts on Signal's policy for edited messages?
Privacy Guides Community [Unofficial]
April 24, 2026
I think it’s the best solution.
If you’re using Signal then I would assume you have some grasp on personal responsibility regarding handling your own data.
I think it also subtly promotes transparency and trust to the recipient in showing your mistakes and corrections, rather than the sometimes ominous “edited”.
I also like that they give you the option to delete the entire message and start again if it’s really a problem.
But 99% of the time it will be typos and readability fixes that people edit messages for.
I edit my comments on this forum often because I’m impatient (case in point: I typed “inpatient”) and don’t proof-read enough lol. I appreciate that this forum sometimes asks for a reason why you’re editing, because I never really thought about what that could imply to the reader.
TL;DR I think it’s the best option.
My backup solution would be “undo send”, that we have on email clients. But that would make instant messaging slow as balls.
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