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TL;DR
- Nothing is launching the beta of Nothing Chats, which guarantees to provide the Phone 2 compatibility with iMessage.
- Nothing Chats requires you to attach it together with your Apple ID.
- Nothing claims its messaging app is non-public and secure.
Nothing is on the brink of launch a brand new messaging app referred to as Nothing Chats. The software program guarantees to provide the Phone 2 compatibility with iMessage, in addition to provide a couple of iMessage options. Although it looks as if there could possibly be safety considerations with how the app works, Nothing claims its app is non-public and secure.
Earlier at the moment, Nothing introduced its Nothing Chats app, which will flip inexperienced textual content bubbles into blue ones. The app will be unique to the Nothing Phone 2 and will initially roll out as a beta. In addition to providing iMessage options like learn receipts, voice notes, and full-resolution media sharing, it will additionally provide RCS.
Nothing’s app is much like Sunbird’s app, which additionally gives iMessage compatibility for Android. In truth, Nothing Chats is constructed on Sunbird’s structure, however is designed by Nothing.
In an article we printed earlier at the moment, we shared considerations about potential safety points with how the app would work. Nothing has since clarified how the method is dealt with to keep the whole lot non-public and secure. A spokesperson states:
Once you log in to the Chats app for the primary time utilizing both your current Apple ID or creating a brand new one, your credentials are tokenized in an encrypted database and change into related to one in all Sunbird’s North America or Europe-based Mac Minis (relying on the place you’re situated), creating an encrypted relay for iMessages despatched by means of the app. Once the relay is created, it’s locked and can’t be accessed by Sunbird or anybody else even when that they had entry to the bodily server itself. The solely motion Sunbird can take with the relay is to delete it.
The spokesperson additional added that Sunbird is at the moment engaged on ISO27001 certification — an internationally acknowledged specification for an data safety administration system. Nothing reportedly partnered with Sunbird as a result of it delivers end-to-end encrypted messages with out ever storing them at any level. The London-based agency additionally says the one data Sunbird holds onto is the account electronic mail, however Sunbird deletes that data if a person is inactive for 2 weeks.
While we nonetheless have our considerations, not less than Nothing has shed some mild on how information will be dealt with for its new app. Nothing Chats will be out there on November 17 within the Google Play Store for the US, Canada, UK, EU, and different international locations in Europe, together with Norway and Switzerland.