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Signal is not available for Android tablets, which was a deal breaker when I tried to move my family off Telegram.
It is in fact available for tablets
Only iPads.
And and device running Android
Tablets can't run mobile apps?
Signal needs a phone number
which does not need to be in the tablet
It does. The Signal app for Android does not support being a secondary device. It must be the primary device with a phone number.
In addition, whatever Play Store settings they use excluded all of our tablets, even the one that had a SIM. Manually installing the APK worked for this case, but that didn't really solve our problem.
do you mean that it does not have a prompt for the SMS code anymore, and it reads the code only from the received SMS?
that's a weird choice, I thought a main goal of them was user freedom