Secure messaging apps are designed to protect chats, but one iPhone case involving Signal shows why device-level privacy can be more complicated than it seems.

As 404 Media reports, the FBI managed to extract Signal messages from a defendant’s iPhone by accessing the phone’s notification database, where incoming messages were viewable even after the app was ...

Recently, the FBI recovered old Signal messages from a suspect's iPhone, despite the messages and the app having been deleted. Now, Apple has fixed the loophole that allowed it to happen. Signal is a ...

The comments followed recent reports that law enforcement officials retrieved deleted Signal messages through device push notification logs. Pavel Durov, co-founder of the Telegram messaging ...

iOS 26.4.2 fixes a flaw that allowed access to deleted texts. The FBI exploited this flaw to recover messages from a Signal user. The patch should protect other messaging apps from this weakness. Many ...

A new report has revealed that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) was able to recover deleted messages from an iPhone even after the Signal app had been removed. Whenever a situation like this ...

Why it matters: Encrypted chat services such as Signal, Telegram, and WhatsApp advertise themselves as the most secure, private digital communication methods. However, no matter how strong an app's ...

Earlier this month, 404 Media reported that the FBI obtained deleted Signal messages saved inside an iPhone’s notification database. It looks like the iOS 26.4.2 security update addresses this, as ...