# Signal - Private Messenger — user reviews > 3,057 indexed App Store user reviews of Signal by Signal Messenger, LLC, rated 4.70/5 from 1,077,317 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/signal-private-messenger/id874139669/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/signal-private-messenger/id874139669.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 921,967 · 4★ 85,812 · 3★ 33,707 · 2★ 12,728 · 1★ 23,103 ## What do users think of Signal? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🔒 Security and privacy - 👍 Ease of use - 🚀 Great call quality - 🚀 Smooth and pleasant user interface - 🔒 End-to-end encryption - 🔒 Non-profit ownership **Cons** - 🐛 Delayed message delivery - 🐛 Inconsistent image/video quality - 🐛 Buggy call functionality - 🐛 Inability to edit sent messages - 🐛 Unreliable notifications - 🔒 Mandatory contact sharing **Commonly reported bugs** - Problem retrieving data, resulting in lost message history - Keyboard covering the current conversation - Inconsistent behavior when attaching photos/videos - Scrolling issues when reading through messages - Inability to recover message history after device change **Most requested features** - Add filters and customization options - Allow adding music to stories - Implement a sticker store - Add ability to pin messages in group chats - Allow new members to view previous group messages - Make group background changes visible to all - Implement a backup/restore feature - Add option to move sent messages to the left side - Bring back pause and skip functions for longer audio messages - Allow batch deletion of group messages ## Newest reviews (17 of 3,057) ### 3/5 — Can’t share contacts *2026-08-20, version 8.25* I would like to share and connect friends. ### 2/5 — Glitchy *2026-08-19, version 8.24* Facial recognition is not the best for this app. Also when the facial recognition fails sometimes I can’t just enter my pin. It glitches out and I have to close the app completely and restart the process and if the facial recognition doesn’t work again then you have to loop the process. Pretty lame. ### 4/5 — signal注册 *2026-08-19, version 8.24* 我敢说signal注册比telegram简单100倍了好吧，不用付短信费，+86可以直接注册 ### 2/5 — Useless stalking app *2026-08-19, version 8.24* I don’t want this app anymore it’s useless garbage trash ### 5/5 — Sad *2026-08-18, version 8.24* I have always felt safe from hackers and scammers on signal ### 5/5 — Good app ever *2026-08-18, version 8.24* Love it ### 5/5 — Best *2026-08-17, version 8.24* I love being able to express myself without feeling like someone’s looking over my shoulder. I have that right as a human being. And signals me the opportunity to do so indiscriminately and I appreciate that thank you, signal ### 4/5 — Wish there was a search function and separate conversation threads *2026-08-17, version 8.24* Love the app. I wish there was a search function that allowed you to search for a key word in a chat. It would be great if there was a way to have separate topic threads in the same chat ### 5/5 — How much I like this *2026-08-17, version 8.24* I love it you should make more like this! ### 5/5 — Feels private *2026-08-17, version 8.24* Way more private than Messenger. I feel like Facebook has sold us out. ### 5/5 — Excellent *2026-08-17, version 8.24* Excellent ### 5/5 — Best private messenger ! *2026-08-17, version 8.24* Best ! ### 5/5 — I like signal *2026-08-16, version 8.24* I like this platform, I has been the most successful platform I’ve ever been on. Keep up the good work guys ### 5/5 — My review *2026-08-16, version 8.24* This app is everything I needed ### 5/5 — Book *2026-08-16, version 8.24* Amazing ### 5/5 — Me *2026-08-16, version 8.24* Good ### 4/5 — Not bad *2026-08-16, version 8.24* Not bad ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Very disappointed by the complete inexistent costumer support and unclear instructions on security *2026-08-23* I have now being using Signal for over 5 years and abandoned WhatsApp completely (I cannot stand Meta group) with no regrets whatsoever. The app is great, safe and has a very functional chat, everything I was looking for that WhatsApp was not giving me (such as being added to big groups with unknown numbers without my consent and ads appearing on my Facebook account based on things I had been chatting about on WhatsApp). However, I am extremely disappointed to have to report that Signal stopped working suddenly one day and the app prompted me to restore it without clearly warning me that it would completely wipe out all my chat history when reopening it. I was also never clearly notified to save the Recovery Key chain which I cannot access now as it was in the app back up before I restored it (I am a very organised person and would have copied it somewhere safe if I understood the extent of the need of it). Therefore I am now locked out of my previous account and security texts to my own mobile number are not enough to recover it without this key which I find excessive given this is not an app dealing with state secrets but only personal conversations. To add to it, no one is coming back to my emails from the support team, really disappointing considering I have been donating to the app in the past to keep it independent and going. To change my rating back to 5 based on the functionality of the app, all comms should be updated to be much clearer for the user when prompted to restore the app and when creating the recovery key! ### 1/5 — New update sucks *2026-08-19, version 8.24* Having to constantly pass a CAPTCHA type check to send messages to people you normally communicate with is a real hassle. Bad move on signals part. ### 1/5 — Good *2026-08-19, version 8.24* Good ### 1/5 — Bs people *2026-08-15, version 8.24* It seems that the people that want you to use this app are fake. Just wanna take advantage of you. ### 1/5 — Celebrity Fraudster *2026-08-15, version 8.24* Elon Musk anyone??? ### 1/5 — Useless *2026-08-14, version 8.24* Very useless!!!!! No stars at all ### 1/5 — Sucks *2026-08-12, version 8.23* I have it apparently on my phone but can’t find it ### 1/5 — Full of African scammers *2026-08-11, version 8.23* I went on signal app today and I was talking to a woman named Kelly and I was texting her they was something fishy going on the video call and she answered the video call it was a black man from Africa and I was shocked and so I deleted the app because this fake Kelly was trying to scam because she was pretending to date me no she was a African scammer man and your app needs to ban scammers from overseas because they pick and trick on the vulnerable like me ### 1/5 — Scammer *2026-08-10, version 8.23* Two people communicated with me today and attempted to scam me for money ### 1/5 — Deleting this app *2026-08-10, version 8.23* Unhappy with using this app which has been used by scammers from Nigerian using famous actors photos ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — I like it *2026-08-20, version 8.25* It works it’s good ### 5/5 — Nice app *2026-08-20, version 8.24* Nice and cool app ### 5/5 — Lovely app *2026-08-20, version 8.24* It’s very convenient to use and it’s so simple ### 5/5 — B *2026-08-20, version 8.24* Great job ### 5/5 — Good *2026-08-20, version 8.24* Good ### 5/5 — Good ap *2026-08-20, version 8.24* Signal ### 5/5 — Text *2026-08-19, version 8.24* Works very well ! ### 5/5 — Nice *2026-08-19, version 8.24* Good app!! One of the best!! ### 5/5 — Vmatosa *2026-08-19, version 8.24* This app as been doing great since i have it ### 5/5 — 自己看不到自己的群标签 *2026-08-19, version 8.24* 希望发消息的时候自己也能看到自己的群标签 --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-28.*