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Comment by bertman

2 years ago

But will the other person really have two distinct chats with me in their list then? One with my username and one with my phone# ?

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stavros  2 years ago

It depends on whether you want your number to be discoverable. In either case, they'll only have one chat, with your username.

  • bertman  2 years ago

    Yeah, so they will indeed be able to link my phone number to my username, even if the number is set to "hidden".

    This sounds unfortunate, but I guess there's no way around this as long as Signal insist on keeping phone numbers as primary identifier.

    • jcul  2 years ago

      I don't think this is the case.

      If you set your privacy to nobody and someone saves your phone number, to them it will appear that you do not have a signal account, even if they start chatting with you via your handle.