Why is signal so slow and why is the resource usage so high?
Why is signal so slow? Why is the resource usage so high? What can i do?
Sorry this post went on for way too long. But here's a short tldr: I have used signal as my main app for messaging for a couple years but in the last 6 months or so i dread opening it. Everything i do on it is so slow and overheats my phone, it's honestly unusable. Anything i can do? Getting it even a little faster would help. Thanks!
I've used signal for years now and I've loved the app and after telegram shit the bed me and everyone in my country switched completely to Signal.
In the Last maybe 6 months or so i don't get notifications (except the ones that signal wants to let through with 0 consistency) but that's not really my problem. It's sooo slow when i try to do anything on it and even opening it i have to sit on my "groups" or "1on1" tabs for 60-180 seconds for it to show my chats?? I could say that MOST of the time it takes so long that i just force close the app and try again. And the search which has always been kind of bad (which is fine) is just about unusable now because it takes so long and IF it shows my search results and i dare to click one of them the group chat just stays empty and it either crashes or i just can't get myself to wait for the chat to load for 60s or more. And when i press the "back" button it has to do the whole search again....
And sending and receiving messages is extremely slow as well. I usually just send my message, then i go do whatever else and after like 5 minutes i have to check if the message has been sent. I could take some of this on the chin for the privacy (trust me i used early session and simplex i can accept some slow and badly optimized software for privacy) but recently my phone has started to overheat really fast and aggressively when I'm on signal or the app is even running in the background. And i don't have a flagship phone and even as a "budget" phone it's not the newest of it's line. But the hardware is pretty good and this doesn't happen with any other app like with signal.
My friends also have been complaining about these things and they have many phones from pretty new iPhones to latest android flagships. And everyone has similar issues especially recently with the overheating, slow messages and the search being unusable.
What most of us have in common is that we have a lot of groups in signal. I have like 170? Or something signal doesn't tell you how many groups you have. But my friend, she only has 20-30 and she has these problems as well. Could the amount of groups be slowing signal down? I've disabled all the backups and no photos or videos in these groups is saved for me unless i press them. But i think my issues are worse than any of my friends because I'm losing my mind over this. I use signal as my main app for messaging but i dread opening it. I'm just searching online for any and all tutorials or reddit posts on how to make signal faster and I've tried everything I think could help. I've reinstalled many times and I've tried to clear caches and stuff that could slow the app down. What I've not done is deleted ALL the data that signal has on my phone because the reinstalling is already a terrible experience everytime.
Sorry for the long post... If you have any tips on getting signal to work faster, use less resources or even some other software that i can message other signal users through please throw them in the comments. Any and all tips you have i will try (after i do a little bit of research) I'm desperate :D