Phone app using Signal

Using /e/OS Applications
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Hello,

I’ve read that the Phone app in CalyxOS can use by default Signal (or other encrypted message app) to call people that are using Signal too.

Is there a similar option available in the Phone app of /e/? If not, does any body know the dial app used by CalyxOS?

Thanks,

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This should be standard, open Phone app → search contact → choose icon of contact (not number) then in the bottom list you can choose signal.

Let me know if this, what you meant? I don’ know how CalyxOS look like…

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Thanks Mihi, I didn’t know this way of doing it. I will use it more often.

That’s the idea but is it possible to have Signal as default behaviour when I want to call someone?

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if /e/OS wants to have the Signal integration to the Dialer, the patches are

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Thanks for the tip. I didn’t know you could do that.

I don’t want to derail the OP by going off topic, but (since it was offered as a potential solution) I tried phone → search contact → choose icon (also tried choosing name) for a couple contacts who are also on signal, and I don’t see signal info for either of them. Personally I think that is a good thing (to protect the information of my contacts), but I’m curious if there is a setting somewhere that allows “cross pollination” of this info.

Re: the OP, I like the idea of defaulting to signal. I do, however, wonder if it’s a security risk. I’m not sure how it works from a tech perspective, but it seems to me my current setup allows signal to access my contacts but does not allow my contacts to access signal. (Maybe that is the cross pollination setting referenced above?) Each individual’s risk tolerance would determine whether they want to allow the phone app to access signal data.

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You can just install signal from the app store. That way you have your choice of app. Signal is pretty much all I use.

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@nora27 check a user in Signal that shows a phone number where you know you got them in Android contacts. If Signal then has the Contacts permission it will be able to aggregate on this.

It should work on name match too (where you give Signal contact the same nickname as in your Android Contacts if those diverge). The latter is for Signal users that have number discovery disabled and can only be reached by username.

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Ditto; but as @tcecyk suggests above should it happen that both you and your contact are both OK to share your contacts “with the network” then, I guess, you will indeed find that “network user” as an option.

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