Signal Android Releases

What’s new?

Overview of recent Signal Android app updates and main changes
Dates refer to beta releases, which are rolled out to stable versions one week later.
Released features only. For in-development features, see News.
Maintained by AboutSignal. Not official release notes.

8.10

Bug fixes & technical improvements

May 6, 2026

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8.9

Remote mute

April 23, 2026

Remote mute: Mute other participants from a group call.
Updated design for Release note chat: New chat color and background to help you recognize the only official chat

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8.8

Improved message requests & UI changes

April 16, 2026

Updated conversation header
Updated message request UI: new warnings when you receive a new message from someone you don't know. Useful for help identify phishing attacks on Signal
Added share and forward options to all media context menus.
Now saved attachments will preserve the original message timestamp instead of using the timestamp at the saved time

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8.7

Plaintext history export & new context menu All media

April 8, 2026

Plaintext history export: export all your chat history in JSON format. Go to Settings → Chats → Export chat History
Context menu in all media screen: an handy context menu in all media screen to easily share, forward, save, delete any file. Go to Chat settings → All media → Long press any item
Now the unanswered outgoing calls are shown as unanswered instead of outgoing in call log and inside the chat

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8.6

New local backups & collapsed events

March 31, 2026

New local backups: Save an encrypted on-device backup of all your conversations and media (cross-platform format). Read more
Collapsed events: in-chat notifications (calls, group updates, members leaving/ joining) now be grouped together. Read more

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8.5

Links tab in All media

March 25, 2026

Links tab in all media view: now the all media overview shows also the links sent and received in the chat
Unicode 17 emoji: new emoji from Unicode 17.0 available in Signal

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8.4

Bug fixes & technical improvements

March 18, 2026

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8.3

Member labels

March 11, 2026

Member label: describe yourself with a member label in groups. Group admins can also choose who is allowed to set a member label. Read more
Backup megaphone: new megaphone at the bottom of the main screen to encourage users to enable the new backup

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8.2

Bug fixes & technical improvements

March 5, 2026

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8.1

Photo and video capture improvements

February 26, 2026

Now you can use the volume buttons to capture photos and video using the Signal built-in camera

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8.0

Signal Secure Backups

February 18, 2026

Signal Secure Backups are now available to everyone. You can use them to back up all your chats and 45 days of media for free; or all chats and media for a monthly fee. Read more

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