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How did the FBI recover Signal messages from a deleted app?

Ellsworth Toohey
Apr 13, 2026
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Deleting a Signal message from your iPhone doesn’t necessarily delete the message. That’s the takeaway from a federal case in Texas, where the FBI recovered Signal messages that had already been erased by pulling them from iOS’s internal push notification storage. Signal is an end-to-end encrypted messaging app popular wi…

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