Sign is rolling out a new feature that enables customers to modify telephone numbers on their account with out dropping all their present chats, teams, and messages inside the safe messaging app.
As a way to add a new number, you’ll nonetheless want to have the ability to get Sign messages despatched to your outdated quantity. Then, head over to the brand new “Change Telephone Quantity” choice beneath Sign’s account settings, the place you’ll be requested to enter in each the outdated and new numbers. Lastly, Sign will information you thru the usual registration process for establishing a telephone quantity with certainly one of its accounts.
When you’ve efficiently up to date your quantity, contacts you’ve been chatting with in Sign will see a brand new message inline in your thread that notes that you just’ve modified their telephone quantity, together with a useful hyperlink to replace your contact card accordingly. Crucially, although, you received’t lose your present thread or teams that you just’re already part of.
The brand new function is meant for customers who’re preserving their present telephone however getting a brand new telephone quantity — in the event you’re simply upgrading to a brand new telephone and need to preserve all of your stuff, you’ll want to make use of Signal’s local data transfer feature to ship over your information out of your outdated system to a brand new one.