It should, but there are two delete buttons. The rightmost (two trash cans) deletes the message from all devices, also from your conversation partner. The leftmost (one single trash can) is a local delete, only in Whisperfish.
The rule of thumb is: if you enter your phone number, your account gets completely reset. If you want to use an Android device without removing/resetting your account, you can use Molly as a linked device.
I transfered my main āSignal Deviceā using the official signalnapp ā transfer account feature (to an androind running also the official signal app). Itās a rare situation, at least for me. The whisperfish client was untouched at that time but was already in red status AFAIR.
i had an unknown contact that did send me an message, that i did block.
i think even on the phone i did the blocking
then after the crash i did unblock it on desktop and reblocked it again
Since I had to reflash my phone during the update to 4.6 and read in the backup (where whisperfish was included via MyBackup) I am unable to start whisperfish. It didnāt help to delete the app and reinstall it. When I try to start, the cover shows the spinning circle and then just vanishes. Is there a way to achieve a completely fresh install? Thanks for help.
Apparently, it has been more than 90 days since our last release. Sorry for the scary warning!
Whisperfish 0.6.0-beta.26
Voice note updates, and some other cool things!
Changes
Contact linking to Sailfish contacts (useful for username/ACI contacts)
Ignore playlists in audio player
Correction in attachment deletion on deleted messages
Graceful failure on body range errors
Recording of voice notes
Local transcription of (English) voice notes using Speech Note
Voice note transcription
To use the (currently very rough) local voice note transcription feature, see the instructions on the wiki. Currently, itās only working for English speech.
Install a model for English (Whisper tiny for armv7 devices (Xperia 10 and below), Whisper base or medium for aarch64/newer devices)
Press and hold a voice note, and select āTranscribeā.
(Optional) Enable automatic transcription in your settings (battery drain warning!)
Thanks to @mkiol for writing Speech Note in a way that we can just hook into it!
Recording voice notes
Use the + button (as if adding an attachment) and select the microphone icon. Whisperfish starts recording immediately. Discard using the X, or send immediately with the send button.
Three months came and went! Weāve been working hard for (basic) PNI support, and itās shaping up quite nicely! There are a few things to fix and one major-ish issue to tackle still, but itās quickly approaching usable condition. After that behemoth lands, we start implementing contact search and sending messages to new contacts.
We have a lot more under-the-hood updates coming, and some long-awaited privacy-related features too! Even Signal Desktop gets a little happier with Whisperfish! I have a hunch that the next release wonāt take three months⦠Stay tuned!
Edit: Thanks to everyone who reported bugs, new and known! Keep the reports coming!
Re reports: Iām also interested in hearing whoās using these weirdo features such as voice note transcription. Iām also thinking to integrate a bit with Rockpool/Pebble, so any ideas up that front are very welcome!
Woohoo, thank you so much for all the hard work and yet another new release!
PS. I happened to have a pasted url as the latest msg in āNotes to selfā and I see html (as in ā<a href=ā¦ā) on the app cover after the update. Iām not absolutely sure but I do think just the beginning of the url was displayed on the cover before.
Great! I see there was some fix for message deletion with attachment. Actually that was the case for me after which whisperfish stopped receiving new messages.
Huh, thatās weird⦠Well, good that the name shows!
You can also link the recipient manually with a contact on your phone. You can find the option in the recipient profile page.
I created that because the automatic linking works by phone number, which is no longer always shared via Signal. The progile page still shows the Signal profile information.
Regarding the transcription feature: is the interface hidden, when the language is not english? Somehow I canāt find it. And where is the setting for the used language?
Wow! Amazing that you were able to reuse Speech Noteās transcription capabilities. Just an observation: You have to disable Sailjail sandboxing in Whisperfish for Transcribe to be visible.