Sign is likely one of the finest encrypted messaging apps for Android, if not the perfect within the enterprise. Its intensive privateness options make it the popular messaging platform for hundreds of thousands of individuals around the globe. The builders behind the app at the moment are supplying you with all another reason to maintain loving it. The newest model of the app permits you to decide a customized icon and title for it, camouflaging its existence in your cellphone.
If in case you have put in model 6.21.3 of the Sign app for Android (hyperlink beneath), navigating to Settings (beneath your profile avatar within the prime left nook of the display screen) > Look > App Icon presents you with 12 icons for the app. One among them is the unique Sign emblem, whereas there are seven extra named Sign. These are basically tweaked variations of the unique icon, with completely different shade mixtures and minor redesigns. However the different 4 choices are the place the true enjoyable lies.
These icons are named Information, Notes, Climate, and Waves and include corresponding icons. Should you decide any of those, the Sign app will not appear like the Sign app in your cellphone’s homescreen and app drawer (by way of). The app will disguise itself in your chosen title and avatar. Solely you’ll understand it’s your messaging service and never an app to learn/watch the information, take notes, or examine the climate. That’s a further layer of privateness even earlier than you open the app.
Notifications will nonetheless present the default Sign app icon and title
Sign notes that notifications from the app will all the time present the default icon and title. So you can not utterly cover the existence of the app in your cellphone. However this characteristic does provide you with extra privateness. It’d be even higher if it provides extra such alternate icons and names. We hope it does, so customers can commonly swap between them with out frequent repetition. In fact, you may already customise app icons with customized ROMs and launchers on Android, however that’s a very completely different story.
Within the case of Sign, you’re getting 12 customized icons to select from with out placing a lot effort or paying a penny. Most different platforms cost cash for that, together with Sign’s rival Telegram. Even then, you don’t get a customized title or a very unrelated icon for the app. Kudos to Sign for its efforts whereas nonetheless being supported by donations with no adverts or buyers. Click on the button beneath to obtain the newest model (v6.21.3) of the app from the Google Play Retailer.