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You can already do that without being a trusted device.

For the longest time, you couldn't. It wasn't until this release I realised that had changed. If it changed before, it wasn't well communicated to me as an Android signal user. I was on beeper and then molly precisely because there was so little traction on changing this. You could install signal fine, but you couldn't QR code or secret phrase mesh it with your android handset. Oddly, iPad meshed fine with iPhone or Android, and OSX desktop likewise. Just Android tablet which didn't.

Do you think this changed in over 18 months? I think it changed in under 18 months.

I think this is pretty recent, I'd never heard of it before. I even got a new phone a month ago and didn't notice this being an option.

Definitely under 18 months.

If I’m not fully mistaken, I checked for the combination of iPhone as main device/Android tablet as iPad-like second device sometime in the past six months, at most since the beginning of the year, and it wasn’t possible (unlike phone + iPad as tablet, which seemed quite strange to me).

In any case, it’s a recently released change.

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