You can turn view receipts on or off in the Settings menu. Like with read receipts for chats, you can decide if you want to send view receipts for Stories you look at and whether you see who’s seen your Stories.

In addition, you have the option to share Stories to existing group chats. If you would rather choose to share your Stories with a smaller subset of people, you can create a custom Story. You also have the option to manually hide your Story from specific people. From there, you can choose to share your Stories with everyone in your phone’s contact list who uses Signal, anyone you’ve had a one-on-one conversation with in Signal or anyone whose message request you’ve accepted. Signal users have the option to choose who can see their Stories by navigating to their settings. Signal notes that like everything else in its app, Stories are end-to-end encrypted. Signal plans to release its Stories feature on desktop soon.Īs with other platforms’ Stories features, Signal Stories allow users to create and share images, videos and texts that automatically disappear after 24 hours. The official launch comes a few weeks after the company first began beta testing the feature with select users. End-to-end encrypted messaging app Signal is rolling out a new Stories feature to all users on Android and iOS, the company announced on Monday.

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