Yes, you can use Signal without sharing your personal phone number. Here’s how I did it.

  • jetA
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    5 months ago

    The fundamental problem is the signal foundation sees the phone number as the identity. If you don’t have control of the phone number, you don’t really have control of the identity.

    The good news is, they let you change your phone number and maintain your contacts. But if the phone number the account is currently registered to get assigned to somebody else and you don’t change it, then you’re playing the 7-day roulette