Last Thursday, the messaging application “Signal” introduced new features related to voice messages, in order to include more disaffected with the “WhatsApp” application, after it announced its privacy policy, which sparked a global controversy.
The first of these features that it introduced in its beta version on Android phones, which bears the number (5.16), is the “Audio Drafts” feature, which is not available on “WhatsApp”, which allows saving a copy of the voice message after exiting the application in order to add more to it. After opening it again, according to the “Android Police” website.
Signal users can also speed up and slow down the playback of the voice message to half the normal speed by clicking a small “x1” button below the message waveform preview, and this feature will come in handy when the other party’s speech is unclear or the recipient is in a hurry to listen to the message summary.
WhatsApp has speed control options for voice chats, but it differs from Signal in that it still only supports higher speeds, and the playback of messages cannot be slowed yet.
The messaging applications “Signal” and “Telegram” witnessed an increase in growth in recent months, after the strong disapproval and rejection of the confusing new privacy policy of the “WhatsApp” application, which announced that it would deprive its users of its use unless they agreed to it, and the most important item in it was the sharing of their data. Private with Facebook.
The version of the “Signal” application for iPhone phones is considered the most efficient in dealing with data, as it reduces its use during calls, and it also provides an option to stop downloading attachments automatically during calls, as well as improved image compression, among other improvements.
Signal has long been the popular messaging option for users who focus on the security of their communications. The European Commission asked its staff to switch to Signal in February 2020, and it is still focused on releasing new features aimed at protecting the privacy of its users. Like encrypting group video calls.