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Signal isn't happy with Microsoft's Recall feature. In response, the app now blocks Recall screenshots by default on Windows 11.
Enabled by default on Windows 11, this feature uses a Digital Rights Management (DRM) flag to stop any application, including Windows Recall, from capturing screenshots of Signal chats. When ...
Signal messenger has rolled out a new security feature in its Windows Desktop app to shield users’ messages from Microsoft’s Recall tool, an AI-powered Windows 11 feature that records and ...
Signal is using built-in functionality in Windows and Recall, working as intended. Any developer can flip that DRM switch and keep Recall from recording its activity by default.
Signal has updated its Windows app to protect users' privacy by blocking Microsoft's AI-powered Recall feature from taking screenshots of their conversations. This new privacy feature, dubbed ...
The new version of Signal stops Windows Recall from taking snapshots of your messages, meaning you don't need to dig through Windows settings. But it's important to note that you can uninstall or ...
The privacy-minded Signal messaging service is putting a blindfold on the prying eyes of the newly returned Windows Recall, an AI-powered feature from Microsoft that takes a screenshot of whatever ...
Signal’s Windows 11 desktop app will use DRM to block Microsoft Recall by default, as it asks for better privacy options to deal with the AI-powered screenshot feature.
Signal Messenger is warning the users of its Windows Desktop version that the privacy of their messages is under threat by Recall, the AI tool rolling out in Windows 11 that will screenshot, index ...
Signal’s fix might block Recall if all chat participants use the Windows desktop app and don’t fiddle with the defaults. But it’s hardly watertight. Last modified on 22 May 2025 ...
That tricks Windows into thinking the Signal window is playing copyrighted content, and, therefore, won't take screenshots of that window for Recall. It's clever, but it does have two implications.
Signal's privacy focus just doesn't jive with Windows Recall's desire to record everything you do, forever, so it's using the standard DRM block to blank out conversations.