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One problem with Signal is that it can be difficult to connect with someone who is on there.
I've run into this a couple of times myself. And I've had friends run into it too. We know for a fact someone is using Signal, but you can't find them in the search, even though you have them in your contacts with the correctly formatted number.
Personally, this issue has become a stumbling block for getting people I know to use it more.
Does that person allow searching by phone number? That is a setting you can disable.
Do you have to find a person in search to be able to send them a message?
Yes, at least that's been my experience.
Yes this is a problem. They use to have it so that you could see will your contacts and you could use it as your normal messenger app and if they also had signal then you get encryption. At least now you can use a username instead of a phone number. Problem with that is you can only have one username. You can change it but that gets messy.