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lorenzhs on July 17, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: The PGP Problem

Signal Desktop has never required your phone to be on. It's completely independent once set up (apart from the occasional contact list sync). It has been this way since the first version of Signal Desktop. You're probably thinking of WhatsApp Web, which works the way you describe. I've seen this incorrect information spread on HN too many times, and I'm not sure how so many people came to think that. It's been 100% wrong from the beginning.

elagost on July 17, 2019 [–]

You are correct. Thanks for pointing that out; I tested it out this morning and verified I was able to send/receive messages on the desktop program with my phone in airplane mode.

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