Wickr Me - Private Messenger
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User Reviews for Wickr Me - Private Messenger
Perfect except password recovery
I love having a channel totally disconnected to the rest of my online identity, but perhaps consider at least having some sort of security question option. Got locked out of my account because fingerprint unlock unexpectedly turned off and had forgotten my password after never having had to type it in for months, which effectively lost me many important contacts.The screenshot alert feature is gold - even better (if possible) would be option to manually disable screenshots within each chat so you also don’t have to deal with scolding people and trusting them to actually delete them!
Okay privacy app with lots of glitches
I’ve used Wickr for years, because it’s encryption and privacy features are top notch. However, the app has lots of glitches, too. Notifications sometimes work, and sometimes they don’t. Sometimes, your account just stops working, and you have to delete your account and start a new user name. I think I’m on the seventh version of my user name! Also, occasionally the app will tell you that a message is sent, but your receiver never received the message. So you find yourself constantly using another IM service to check to make sure that your receiver has received your message. Those sorts of things are frustrating, and I hope at some point they figure out how to fix that.
Notifications with nobody there
Been a while since I’ve posted here. I’ve updated my phone since my last review so I’m on the current iOS. The latest version of Wickr has me getting at least 4 notifications per day that doesn’t have a message attached to it. So I log in to find no activity at all. No new messages. Hopefully this is a known issue and you are working on it. Thanks.Update:Just letting you know that I tried it out again as you asked and even after the recent update I'm still getting dead notifications. Notifications with no messages attached. I'm only talking to one person.After recent update I'm still getting notifications with no messages attached. I even deleted my account and created a new one to see if that would help. It didn't. I'm only talking to one person but I know this person is talking to others on this app. I have no idea how many people they are communicating with. At this point I'm thinking there’s a glitch going on when messages are sent to others...
Update
Wickr is number 1. You may take some small issue with aesthetics, but that has precisely nothing to do with security. This app beats out the others where it counts. We live in a world that is regressing into censorship. Certain countries, both democratic as well as non-democratic, and even big tech ALL engage in censorship for wrong think. It's very sad. Real 1984 stuff. Americans have it a little better than the rest..for now. No matter, because everyone needs apps like this, as well as protonmail and a good VPN. Censorship, particularly of political views and social topics, is abuse and it's not okay. Also, don't forget to delete tracking cookies and clear history daily, or hourly.
No Reason At All not to be 5 *’s
Here’s the only few flaws.Apps such as signal allow the user to set an expiration timer in which is programmed per user for ever. EVEN AFTER HE USER DELETED THE MESSAGE THREAD.On wickr unfortunately it will reset every time you delete a thread.That being said if you want the messages to expire within a certain time that you say happen to have left it as. The chances are if you deleted the thread you now will have a message that won’t expire for 5-6 days.Where as in the app “Signal” it will remember if you had a 1-3 hour expiration or a whole day.The thing about this is when you communicate on a large scale it’s nonsense to keep all the open threads. But when starting a new conversation with someone the following day it’s now once again on a 5 day expiration because you may forget to reset it.Obviously signal wants your real phone number to use it which is dumb.Wickr is an excellent app. If they could please program it to expire where you left it the last time I would feel along with others who I’ve spoken to would all feel more secure about using “Wickr” to communicate.Thank you guys for making such an App possible.It is important even if not say breaking the law that people have their privacy.
impressive with Touch ID
No ads. You do NOT need to provide your phone number, email address or access to your contacts.Update: The touch ID feature is found under the auto logout setting. When you select the value of never the touch ID option is displayed. The new color scheme takes some getting used to.Update: Wickr today (Dec. 4) launched a desktop client for Windows, Mac and Linux. Users' messages will now also sync across all devices on which a single user's Wickr applications are installed, allowing people to switch between desktop and mobile.I used this app for several weeks. I don't like how you have to hold your finger on the picture to view it. They did this to reduce the ability to make a screen capture. I just don't care for that design. The good news is that the app works flawlessly on my phone. Message delivery appears to be reliable. I heard that a windows app is being developed. Looking forward to that.
SECURE! Mostly reliable, sometimes buggy
I do love and trust the Wickr app. The company puts security and privacy first on their priority list. I believe them that even if records were legally subpoenaed, there would not and could not be any message content; because it is not stored anywhere. This is one of the serious problems with regular text messages, and a crazy bad problem with Facebook Messenger. They store all content Forever! Don’t say or ask anything the least bit confidential via any FB system, ever. I do experience intermittent service interruptions and glitches, at times, when using Wickr. I recommend saving the Wickr ID for each of your friends/clients in your contact list, and/or taking screenshots of your Wickr user list. That way, if Wickr starts behaving badly, you can uninstall, restart your phone, and reinstall the app (and easily reconnect with your people). I had to do that once. It did resolve whatever ghost-in-the-machine problem I was having. Thanks for an awesome, secure, private, and Free app! I appreciate your effort to make the modern world a safer place. :)
Proof of Authenticity (for me at least)
I may not know very much about the technicalities of security, but one thing I do know for sure. Wickr WORKS. Back in 2017 when I was raided and taken in for multiple 1st degree drug charges the department of homeland security did a phone extraction on my phone and Wickr didn’t even show up under the apps section. I had my lawyer control+F for “wickr” in the phone extraction report (5200 something pages long) and there was no results found. I tried searching for keywords that I sent under wickr and nothing came up . It’s like the app never existed, even though it was clearly on my phone . Amazing :)
Bring Back Secure Shred
I was initially excited to see the new revamped app hit the market, but then I discovered that the most useful feature—Secure Shred—had not only had its manual functionality removed, but also now only focused on erasing/sanitizing the data related to Wickr messaging. While it’s nice to think that’s running in the background, the app eventually times out and the screen lock comes on (which effectively shuts down the app) while waiting for the background shred to work. Manual controls allowed not only the ability to monitor progress of the operation, but also allowed users to see the before and after effects the shred had on available storage. Please bring back the manual controls and the functionality that allows you to permanently overwrite/erase/shred deleted files (other than those are tied to Wickr specifically)! Wickr held a perfect spot in the App Store for this use case, and now it’s hard to find a suitable (and trusted) replacement.
Better
I think it is a good app for texting. I have used it and I like it. No need to use any phone number or valid email address, basically, this app does not ask for verification. However, no one knows what other user information has been taken by this app as you use it. It may take device identification number such as IMEI number. Remind you that no digital device which connects the internet either wired or wireless is safe from hacking especially from NSA. Be your own boss and safeguard yourself. Users are thankful for the service. Thank you for your efforts and time.
Description
As of January 1, 2023 we are no longer accepting new user sign ups for WickrMe. WickrMe will be discontinued after December 31, 2023. For more information, please visit: https://wickr.com/me/
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