Formatting: on Android, Signal is leveling up with WhatsApp

Signal will soon offer a new way to present the texts you want to send to your contacts.

Between WhatsApp and Signal it is often a game of cat and mouse. Both often seek to copy the other in what she does best. After Instagram, the messaging application renowned for its high level of confidentiality will therefore, in turn, follow the example of its rival WhatsApp!

Bold and italics!

Messaging apps that have become popular for the quality of their privacy policy lately tend to move away from their original clean look. Telegram is thus embarking on the adventure of Stories while Signal will offer new options for processing the text of your messages.

You will soon be able, as is already possible on WhatsApp, to choose to make your text italic, bold or even strikethrough. Something to have a little more fun in your discussions, and above all to better understand certain nuances of the message you want to convey to your friend, installed a little too far from you!

Soon in your pocket

And to show that the application is as much there to protect your privacy as to allow you to create a little fun, a “spoiler” option will also be integrated. Suffice to say that you can comment on important information from the latest current series in your group chat without necessarily spoiling the fun of latecomers!

To be able to access these features, you simply need to select the word or group of words to be processed. Then appear, after the traditional “cut” and “paste”, the options “bold”, “strikethrough” “italic”. The “spoiler” option will be accessible by clicking on the icon with three vertical dots. For people interested in the news, you should know that this update is currently only open in beta. It will therefore be necessary to wait a few more weeks for Signal to deploy it to all of its users!

Source : Android Police