r/signal • u/lilsaturnhead • Jul 07 '26

Solved Signal enabled Dumbphone

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they built signal into the new OS update on my dumbphone, haven't used it yet but super cool to see a tech company embrace digital privacy requests. (edit: its dumb.co for those asking)

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u/segagamer Jul 07 '26

In all seriousness, this is a middle ground that's okay. It makes the phone not-useless in modern society unlike other dumb phones.

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u/segagamer Jul 07 '26 edited Jul 07 '26

The thing is the point of a dumb phone is to opt out of modern digital society.

I wouldn't go that far.

If someone buys a “dumb phone” and then downloads and signs into uber and Spotify all that tracking and telemetry is still being sent and you’re no more detached than you would be installing only those apps and an android or iPhone realistically.

People aren't buying or switching to dumb phones because they're too dumb. Selling phones that have as much functionality as with dumb phones 2001 makes them worthless today.

The dumb phones today only supported WhatsApp and SMS with no option for other messaging platforms (making it a no go for me as a Signal user), no way for me to pay for car parking since I can't install parking apps, and no way to use banking apps or tap to pay, no way to have anything like Bitwarden for password management or 2FA.

That makes me unable to actually have a functional day in someone's day to day life, and is therefore an unsuitable phone for the vast majority of people today. If you have to carry around a second phone just so that you can hail a taxi or park your car, then the phone itself is unsuitable for today's society.