Blog - Session Private Messenger

November 09, 2025 / Session

Screenshot alerts are a popular feature in many apps, notifying users when someone takes a screenshot of shared messages or photos. While intended to enhance privacy, these alerts often create practical issues and introduce new privacy risks. Due to these concerns, Screenshot Notifications are being removed from Session.

August 06, 2025 / Alex Linton

The latest progress towards Session Pro Beta's five core features: higher character, unlimited pins, larger groups, animated display pictures, and Pro badges.

June 04, 2025 / Session

Announcing a new Session Network page, now available in the Session app, giving you a heads-up view containing key information about the decentralized Session Network.

May 19, 2025 / Session

The Session Network is a new decentralised network with the purpose of supporting and amplifying Session. This change makes it easier for newcomers to understand Session's design, makes operating a node in the network simpler than ever, and unlocks new integrations with useful blockchain technologies.

March 11, 2025 / Session

End-to-end encryption ensures your messages stay truly private. In a world where digital privacy is under constant attack, E2EE isn’t just for activists or high-risk users—it’s for everyone. So, how does it work, and why does it matter?

March 10, 2025 / Session

Groups v2 is coming to Session, bringing improved stability and reliability for larger group chats. This update lays the groundwork for a more seamless and feature-rich group chat experience.

February 11, 2025 / Session

Big Tech is tracking your every move online—but you don’t have to accept it. This guide covers six simple steps to reclaim your privacy, from switching to a secure browser to locking down your social media settings. Take control of your data and browse without surveillance.

January 27, 2025 / Session

The spaces we inhabit online are worthless without us. Popular social media and messaging apps like Facebook and WhatsApp derive all their value from users—our data, content, and connections—but return very little to the people who make them valuable. Web3 changes everything.

January 16, 2025 / Kee Jefferys

This post provides a comprehensive analysis of Session's security design choices and explains why the supposed vulnerabilities recently described by a security researcher are based on misinterpretations of both the code and underlying cryptography.

December 18, 2024 / Session

Session is a messaging app designed to protect your privacy, security, and safety. This article will explain some of the key protections included in Session, and the safety choices you can make when using the app.

November 26, 2024 / Session

Digital IDs may soon replace physical ones. This could spell disaster if these new systems are not implemented with privacy in mind, and without the decentralisation inherent to the verification of physical IDs.

August 18, 2024 / Alex Linton

Over 1 million people are using Session. 1 million is a moment to celebrate. A lot of people have contributed countless hours to achieving this goal. It’s a lot of users, especially for a decentralised messaging app—perhaps more than any other has ever reached. Things haven’t always come easy, nor have they been simple, but it’s achieved thanks to the persistence of every single contributor and community member.

August 11, 2024 / Alex Linton

Signing up with Session has always been fast—and now it’s simpler and smoother than ever. Session’s latest release contains completely overhauled onboarding, including new flows for signing up, restoring your account, and linking a new device.

May 03, 2023 / Alex Linton

Strong encryption saves lives. Journalists rely on encrypted communication tools every day to protect their safety and the safety of their sources. To promote World Press Freedom Day, we have joined our allies in privacy tech to demand the protection of secure communication and the protection of a free press.

October 19, 2022 / Kee Jefferys

We’re changing the names of open groups and closed groups to Communities and Groups respectively. And you can now dress Session up in custom themes!

October 05, 2022 / Alex Linton

Some menus in Session will change in an update over the next few days. These changes are cosmetic. The underlying functionality of Session is not changing. 

September 05, 2022 / Harris

Welcome to Session Release Roundup #15! This Release Roundup includes emoji reacts, the re-introduction of DMing people from open groups, and iOS performance upgrades.

September 05, 2022 / Wesley Sukh

SIM Swapping: it's a pretty scary form of hacking that even managed to catch the CEO of Twitter off guard. This article tackles the best way to avoid phishing attacks, the risk and reward of 2FA (two-factor-authentication) and tips on protecting your phone number.

August 07, 2022 / Kee Jefferys

At PETS, Kee sat down with Dan, one of the authors of the CoverDrop paper which proposes a secure method for initial contact between journalists and sources or whistleblowers.

August 03, 2022 / Kee Jefferys

Kee sat down with Mariano at the Privacy Enhancing Technology Symposium to discuss his paper on the security practices of companies which hold personal data covered by the GDPR.

June 30, 2022 / Wesley Sukh

Privacy matters to all relationships — especially when we communicate digitally. How you and your partner message, sext or chat is just be between you.

June 27, 2022 / Alex Linton

Anonymity and dating might not seem like a match made in heaven — you're probably gonna want to know who you're dating, after all. But it all comes down to safety.

June 08, 2022 / Alex Linton

Account IDs are instant, secure, portable, and anonymous — making them the perfect alternative to phone numbers for a private messaging app.

May 26, 2022 / Wesley Sukh

Will Musk's plans to rid twitter of spam ultimately lead to the death of the platform's pseudonymous identities?

May 06, 2022 / Alex Linton

Ah, encryption. The lifeblood of cybersecurity. Elon Musk recently suggested adding encryption to Twitter DMs. But would that really make Twitter DMs private?

January 07, 2022 / Alex Linton

To share a file without sharing the metadata as well—to preserve your privacy or anonymity— you’ll need to strip the file’s metadata.

December 20, 2021 / Alex Linton

We know there’s one important item on every Session user’s wishlist this holiday season, and that’s exactly what we’ve got — voice and video calls (sort of). 

December 07, 2021 / Alex Linton

Voice and video calls have been Session’s most requested feature ever since we launched. Here's what to expect now that voice calls are released on Session.

November 09, 2021 / Alex Linton

When Mark Zuckerberg introduced Facebook’s new brand—Meta—in an hour-long Connect 2021 presentation, I (along with others no doubt) had a nagging thought throughout: is this what our matrix looks like?

October 21, 2021 / Alex Linton

This Global Encryption Day, the cybersecurity community is calling for people to #MakeTheSwitch to end-to-end encryption. The OPTF is proud to join the call and stand in support of encryption.

October 06, 2021 / Alex Linton

This year, ‘Send it to me on Session’ has become a part of my everyday language. If you’re in the same boat, we want to hear from you!

September 14, 2021 / Alex Linton

Phone numbers are not private. Using your phone number can put your privacy at risk. If you’ve spent much time around the privacy movement, you’ve probably heard countless people lament the privacy shortcomings of phone numbers.

September 06, 2021 / Alex Linton

Digital conversations are fundamentally different to real-world conversations. When you have a conversation over text, you’re creating a record. The record you create will persist long into the future, and it can quickly paint a high fidelity picture about your life.

June 23, 2021 / Alex Linton

Encryption is vital to defending digital privacy, but it’s being painted as the villain of the tech world. Push back against the anti-encryption agenda.

April 20, 2021 / Alex Linton

A fundamental concept underpinning the field of cybersecurity is adversaries. Adversaries are any two parties who have opposing interests.

February 16, 2021 / admin

A while back, we pulled multidevice support back into the workshop with the aim of implementing a more effective version in future, promising it would return someday. Well, today is that day, and the future is now. Multidevice is rolling out in early beta right now to an App Store or Play Store near you! …

February 10, 2021 / Alex Linton

Session has been seeing massive user growth recently, with tens of thousands of active users in dozens of countries around the world. But hold on a minute — Session is also completely anonymous, with no phone numbers or other identifiers. So how do we know how many users we have, or where they are? Mobile …

January 28, 2021 / admin

Closed groups grow to 100! Plus: Protocol changes, performance improvements, and more Hello, it’s me, haven’t seen you in a while. It’s been a few months since we last piped up, but don’t worry — we’ve been hard at work tippy-tapping away, writing, wrangling, and working on brand new code to build a bright future …

June 26, 2020 / admin

Welcome to Session Release Roundup #5! Highlights include mobile updates to prepare for the desktop refactor, and some serious speed and reliability gains.

June 19, 2020 / Alex Linton

There have been a lot of reasons for people to suddenly take an interest in private messengers recently. Previously, encrypted messengers were mostly used by tech aficionados — and it shows in the way these apps are designed. But now private messengers are becoming more and more popular. Let’s go through some of the basics …

June 15, 2020 / Alex Linton

As netizens have become more and more tech-literate over the years, lots of people have developed their own list of ‘scam app’ red flags to look out for. This might be things as simple as poor reviews, poorly written app descriptions, or things just looking plain dodgy. Most people have been around the internet rodeo …

May 11, 2020 / admin

Welcome to Session Release Roundup #2! Highlights include a huge round of bugfixes and improvements on iOS, and news about Spanish localisation!

April 23, 2020 / admin

Welcome to the first ever Session release roundup! In these posts, we’re going to talk about all of the newest fixes, features, and future plans for Session. Every time there’s a major Session release, we’ll put out one of these — and an accompanying email newsletter — so you can see what’s changed, and what …

April 09, 2020 / admin

Don’t care what’s behind the scenes? Skip straight to software verification tutorials for macOS, Linux, and Windows. Back in the day, software used to arrive in the form of floppy discs, MiniDiscs, and CD-ROMs. But now, it’s all about the download. Everything is downloaded: the apps you use to keep in touch with your family, …

January 10, 2020 / admin

Staying private online is important for everyone — but for some, it can be crucial. Learn how to confirm who you’re talking to while staying anonymous.

December 17, 2019 / Alex Linton

Phone numbers are tied to our online identities: we use them as logins and to secure our accounts with SMS two-factor verification. But how secure are they?