Monday, September 15, 2025

Android Signal Keyboard Privacy

Android keyboards can be quite sophisticated, including learning of commonly used words or languages. Some of these result in uploading what you enter to a service you may not know about. The Signal app on Android includes a setting to say that its keyboard input should not be uploaded.

Malicious keyboard apps can ignore this, but if a malicious keyboard has made its way onto your device I think you have bigger problems.

I learned of this from Liz Fong-Jones' Bluesky feed.