How to Use Signal Private Messenger App

hey everyone in today's app video i want to show you how to use the signal app it's a private messenger here that you could use on your iphone on your android devices on your ipad and it even has applications for mac pc and linux it is not yet supported on chromebooks though so let me show you exactly how to use it and why you would want to use it here i have it on my iphone i'm going to go ahead and open and walk you through the signup process first let's do that and here i'm going to press continue and i should mention one of the reasons why this has become a very popular messaging app is because of its dedication to security and privacy it is end-to-end encrypted just like most messaging apps are but it's also an open source app you could actually see the code for the app if you wanted to and that's one of the reasons they got a lot of attention recently let's go ahead and enable some permissions here so we could actually get this going on our phone so i could give it access to my contact i won't do that in this case and you do need a phone number here to sign up so it doesn't have to be the one on this sim card but it does have to be a valid phone number this is the verification process of your account because it's going to send you a message so type out your phone number here based on your country and verify your account with the code and here you do at least need to type in a first name but you don't have to type in a last name and press save now you also need to create a four digit pin so i'm going to type that out here and this is the home page of the signal

app now a lot of people ask me when i make these kind of app videos why they need another messaging app i already have whatsapp i already have imessage on my iphone why do i need signal it's just an alternative to those apps so if you already use whatsapp this is just an alternative to whatsapp for sending photos for sending videos for sending text messages and to do one-on-one or group voice calls and video calls so here on the home page of signal is really easy to use you could click this icon right here to go ahead and get to settings and change your profile picture if you like i didn't add a profile picture yet but to send a message all we have to do is press the pencil icon right here and then we need to go ahead and give it access either to our contact which i did not do yet or i could find people by their phone number and send them an invite now if they don't have signal yet it's going to ask them to download the app but i'm going to ask someone that already has the app you could always create groups here too i'll go ahead and find someone by phone number type in their number here so i already sent him a message here but basically this works like any messaging app down here you have your message box click this you could type out any message here your message will get typed out and then you could go ahead and press send just right here again if you've used whatsapp or messenger or any other apps you're going to be comfortable using this if you press the plus sign it's going to let you send photos here so you could give it access to your camera or you could send gifs and many other options are available here so if i give it access to the camera i could go ahead and take a picture and then press it and send it to them and they're going to receive this picture in high resolution and then some of the other options you have this icon right here which lets you install stickers here and send stickers and then you have your camera again which gives you access to your camera your phone's camera which you have some options here with taking pictures or rotating the camera using this icon or turning on flash again this depends on your phone and let me press x and you also have the microphone option here to get access to your microphone and start and record a voice message as well so sending pictures recording voicemail sending text messages all right here within an individual text message this works the exact same way with a group message and you could also use

this as a video chat or an audio chat platform besides sending messages let me show you that if you go up here there's a video icon and there's an audio so if i press video right here it's going to start a phone call and the other person is getting the phone call if they press answer you i'm going to be able to see their screen i'm just using another phone here so i have the two different accounts in the same place so i could show you from both angles and my video is just showing up right here in the corner anytime i could tap on it and i have some options down here again turning on or off the camera so you see what that does here i could go ahead and turn it back on if i want i could mute or unmute i just have it on mute right now because it's creating an echo i could hang up here and i could flip my camera and this is the video chat right here that we could use i'm going to end this call here and to do the audio chat it's the same exact thing you just press this option right here it's going to call that person and then when they pick up they have the same option and i could go ahead and turn on my video here too i'm gonna go ahead and end this now let's go back to the home page and now all your messages will show up over here this is very similar to whatsapp if you've ever used that before so they'll show up all over here so anytime you want to restart a phone call you could just click this and jump into that call or that conversation you also have the search bar here you could search for people on this section as well and i didn't show you this option the camera option if you click this you could get access to your camera at any time outside of using a message so i could go ahead and take a picture here and then send it as a message here so i could select new message type out my message and then i have some options on top for adding text and cropping and even saving this image so you could use this as your main camera app here i'm going to press send at the end it's going to show your recent chats here you could search i'm going to choose my recent chat and then i'll press the send icon on the bottom and it's going to send that image to them so i didn't start it with the pencil icon like i typically would start a message i use the camera icon so i could take a picture and send a message that way you could also record a video on the same page if you press and hold you see it's recording a video so here's a video i could go ahead and send this instead brings me back to the exact same page you could see i could trim the video up here the beginning and the end of it here and type out my text here if i want or just press send with the arrow and then it's going to send that video to that person any time you could press and hold down on a message so i just press and hold right here i could give a message a reaction so if i want to give it a reaction i could choose any one of these reactions i could delete a message copy it and go ahead and forward that message here

and let me show you how to send a disappearing message you could actually send messages that disappear after a certain amount of time and you could even set that time so let's jump into the phone again so right here sending disappearing messages if you just type it out here nothing's gonna happen it's gonna send it just like the messages and the pictures i've been sending so we do have to turn something on and that's this icon right here press it now with that conversation you could go ahead and turn on disappearing messages here i'll it on and then you get a slider message disappears after one day or if you come all the way in the beginning message disappears after five seconds so one week or five seconds that's your range and anything in between here so let's do five seconds here now we could go back i'm under set to disappearing time so i'll type out my message and i'll press send and you could see a little timer is going right here and just like that the message disappeared so that's really useful sending disappearing messages this is something that snapchat came up with years back and now is part of the signal app as well and that's your introduction to the signal messaging application i hope you found it useful i post these videos on this channel every single week introducing you to new apps really useful apps that i find some are really popular some you may have never heard of before so if you found this one useful please subscribe give it a like and i hope to see you next time