# Keep your phone number private with Signal usernames

<https://signal.org/blog/phone-number-privacy-usernames/>

- Host: [signal.org](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/hosts/signal.org/)
- Saved: February 21, 2024 (2024-02-22T01:21:09Z)
- Record: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/f33176e450af/
- JSON: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/f33176e450af.json

## What Jamie wrote

It has always bugged me that your phone number was your identity in Signal. Happy to see them rolling out username. 👏

## Facts

- Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/)

## Appears in

- [WT278: Weekly Thing 278 / Groq, GraphRAG, Gasless](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/278/), Briefly

## Same host

- [Privacy is Priceless, but Signal is Expensive](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/ea01dc971c3c/) (signal.org, November 21, 2023)
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- [A Synchronized Start for Linked Devices — Signal](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/624adf6efb52/) (signal.org, January 29, 2025)
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- [Signal Protocol and Post-Quantum Ratchets](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/a694f4d2b218/) (signal.org, October 7, 2025)

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## Elsewhere

- Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://signal.org/blog/phone-number-privacy-usernames/