For a while, the use of WhatsApp increased due to privacy and security discussions. Signalremoves the option to send and receive SMS messages in the Android app. People currently using Signal as their default SMS app will receive alerts advising them to switch to a different app. In this context, you can export your SMS messages and transfer them to another application.
Signal has unplugged this feature! End of an era for Android
Change won’t happen overnight. “You’ll have a few months to move away from SMS in Signal, transfer your SMS messages to another app, and let people you talk to know that they might want to switch to Signal or otherwise find another channel,” Signal said. The explanation was made through a blog post.
There are different reasons and justifications for this change. For one, there is no end-to-end encryption of SMS messages. Also, given the changing prices of data and text plans over the years, sending an SMS message these days can cost more than a Signal message.
SignalThe third reason he gave is that he wants to avoid people getting confused between SMS and Signal messages in the app. The company said its SMS apps had “serious UX and design implications.” Also, Signal said that removing support for SMS will free up resources to work on other projects and features. It’s still not clear what the call to end SMS support is directly linked to.