I have one Android and one iPhone for fun and like to switch back and forth.

Due to this I largely prefer Telegram as Signal can’t be simultaneously logged in on both. Is this feature likely in the works or is there something that inherently makes it difficult/impossible?

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Securely sharing end-to-end encrypted messages between devices is inherently difficult, especially combined with device verification. Note the ‘secret chats’ of Telegram are not shared across devices.

As far as I know, Matrix is the only network that has solved this problem. It even has cross-signing and federation.

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Your best bet for the time being would be using mollyim-insider-android and that’s what I use on my spare phone (Signal on main phone):

v6.30.4-1+linkdevice.rev10

So far everything works as expected. Good luck!

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Thanks for the rec!

Ages later I finally got around to migrating and it works great! :)

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I been wanting this basic feature for years. I even stopped using it for awhile because of this lacking feature.

I would suggesting going to these threads on the official signal forums and giving them a thumbs up and leaving a comment on why you would like this feature.

https://community.signalusers.org/t/android-tablet-support/5590

https://community.signalusers.org/t/allow-android-ios-devices-e-g-tablets-but-also-phones-to-be-linked-to-the-primary-device-i-e-used-as-secondary-device-like-the-desktop-app/2884

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