this post was submitted on 03 Aug 2026
317 points (95.7% liked)
Technology
86847 readers
3369 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related news or articles.
- Be excellent to each other!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
- Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.
Approved Bots
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
My biggest issue with Signal is that it doesn’t reliably work. I’ll message back and forth with a friend on there and then receive a text message a week later asking why I’m not responding on Signal. And it’s because I didn’t receive the messages.
Yeah happens to me from time to time. I think it's special treatment by Android OEMs. I think Samsung really likes to kill background apps even if explicitly told not to. see here.
Maybe It's expected behavior if Signal is not being used that often. Still weird WhatsApp never has that problem
Weird I have never experienced this (or it was so long ago I don't remember). We've been using Signal absolutely reliably for our family Chat for many years now, and also with other friends.
I don't think Google Play Services are required, but
could have sth to do with it. And that's accessible through Settings, an App Permissions thing IIRC (although I never needed to do that manually either).
PS: I sent you a dm on a different matter.
That's really weird. I use it for my out-of-band chat for work since we all mute our Teams after hours. It's been reliable the entire 3 years we've been using it. Maybe I'm just really lucky?
Do you have google play services installed? If not, your power optimisation settings might prevent signal from running in the background, which it needs to to receive messages
Works on my machine. :P
Never had that myself. My family and i have been using it exclusively for years now.the only tine we fallback is when someone is in an area without data or wifi. Maybe once a year.
Ive had this issue as well. I find it happens when i leave my wifi and go to cell signal. Not sure if its the same for you. I dont think ive had it be almost a week later but its been a few hours or maybe a day