18January 2021
- Signal said on Saturday that it had restored service following an outage that began Friday morning.
- The app began experiencing technical difficulties as its new users skyrocketed after competing service WhatsApp announced controversial new changes to its privacy policy.
- Signal said some users may notice errors in their chats, but that those issues would be resolved in an upcoming update
- Encrypted messaging app Signal said it was back up and running on Saturday following an outage that left its users without the service for more than a day.
- In a Saturday evening tweet, the company announced it was “back” and thanked the “millions of new Signal users around the world for [their] patience.”