Improving Private Signal Calls: Call Links & More
If you love group calls on Signal, but don’t want to create a group chat for every combination of your friends or colleagues, you’re in luck. Today we’re launching call links: Share a link with anyone on Signal and in just a tap or click they can join the call. No group chat required.
Call links join a suite of other features to improve Signal calling including a raise hand button, emoji reactions, a dedicated calls tab, and a number of improvements to the look and feel of Signal calls.
We believe that however you want to communicate – a text, a call, a voice message, a GIF, a video call, a story – you should be able to do it privately. We first introduced private, end-to-end encrypted voice calls in Signal calling back in 2014. Keeping with the times, we added video calls in 2017 and group video calls in 2020.
Today, Signal as an organization runs all of our meetings using Signal calls, treating them as a substitute for the surveillance-heavy video meeting services that grew in popularity after COVID hit.
