What are your thoughts on Signal's policy for edited messages?
Privacy Guides Community [Unofficial]
April 26, 2026
Mitsuha:
> Think of it as “signal shows YOU that recipient can potentially see all edits” instead of “signal shows recipient all your edits”.
This is true because to the extent that most Signal users don’t know that their contacts can see their edits, most of those contacts won’t know either.
Mitsuha:
> There many forks of telegram that can log all edits and deleted messages, official telegram shows nothing. So people(who are using official tg) might think that if they edited/deleted message - nobody can see original message.
This is another thing that I didn’t know. As I said earlier, it is my understanding that Telegram has record of your edits, even though you can’t see them yourself.
All that being said, I am surprised that forks of Signal and other messaging apps, allow you to view edits and deleted/disappearing messages. I have always thought of forks and modded apps as good things that allow you to have more features like block ads, but I never saw them as was to do things that are not very ethical.
From a security perspective, I think it would be good for recipients to have an indicator when their contacts are using a fork or modded version of Signal.
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