651
FBI Extracts Suspect’s Deleted Signal Messages Saved in iPhone Notification Database
(www.404media.co)
this post was submitted on 09 Apr 2026
651 points (99.2% liked)
Technology
83666 readers
4808 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related news or articles.
- Be excellent to each other!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
- Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.
Approved Bots
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
I imagine a similar exploit will work on Android devices, as well. Wouldn't have considered it, but it may be a good idea to figure out how to disable the content from appearing in the Android notifs, too.
It's not an exploit. It's a built-in setting in Signal, and the Android options are identical to the one displayed above. You can turn off notification history in Android as well, so it has no stored record of cleared notifications at all.