Me and my family ditched Signal this week after 2 years of struggle. The calls refusing to ring on our 3 different brands of Android phones, only to be greated by a missed call notification later, despite disabling all the battery optimization features on each phone meant the app was unusable for us.
It always rings on the PC app, but on our phones it's always hit or miss. Only once you open the app when someone is calling you, does it finally decide to ring.
Googling around it seems many are impacted by this bug which has been around since forever, but no fix has been implemented and since the dev team seems mostly iOS focused, I doubt it will ever be. The lack of supporting linking to Android tablets is another blow for us when iPad support has been available since forever.
Shame. I respect Signal and its devs for doing what they did, but we need more than a barebones messaging app with focus on stickers and stories instead of fixing jarring bugs and missing Android features, so it looks like it's back to WhatsApp for us. It may be part of Zuck's empire but it has never ever let us down in any situation.
It always rings on the PC app, but on our phones it's always hit or miss. Only once you open the app when someone is calling you, does it finally decide to ring.
Googling around it seems many are impacted by this bug which has been around since forever, but no fix has been implemented and since the dev team seems mostly iOS focused, I doubt it will ever be. The lack of supporting linking to Android tablets is another blow for us when iPad support has been available since forever.
Shame. I respect Signal and its devs for doing what they did, but we need more than a barebones messaging app with focus on stickers and stories instead of fixing jarring bugs and missing Android features, so it looks like it's back to WhatsApp for us. It may be part of Zuck's empire but it has never ever let us down in any situation.