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How to Make Sure Your Private Signal Messages Aren't Still Lurking on Your Phone
404 Media said the evidence came from Apple’s notification storage, and only incoming messages were recovered because Signal previews were enabled.
- The FBI recovered deleted Signal messages from a defendant's iPhone by accessing the device's internal notification database, even though the encrypted messaging app had been removed from the phone.
- This extraction emerged during trial testimony in a case involving defendant Lynette Sharp and others charged with vandalism and setting fireworks at the ICE Prairieland Detention Facility in Alvarado, Texas.
- FBI Special Agent Clark Wiethorn testified that incoming messages were preserved in Apple's internal notification storage, with findings detailed in Exhibit 158 published by supporters of the defendants.
- Any app displaying previews on the Lock Screen shares this vulnerability, as the system stores notifications in its database until users manually dismiss them, affecting far more than Signal alone.
- Users can mitigate the risk by opening Signal, tapping "Settings," then selecting "No Name or Content" under Notification Content to prevent message previews from being stored in alerts.
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