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this post was submitted on 11 May 2025
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I hope it gets multi device support and sync one day, in a way that just works
You can just make a group for each contact with all of your (and their) devices in it.
It’s still a shitty workaround
If people contact me, I can’t expect them to create a group..
You can configure one or more of your profiles' addresses to be a "business address" which means that when people contact you via it it will always create a new group automatically. Then you can (optionally, on a per-contact basis) add your other devices' profiles to it (as can your contact with their other devices, after you make them an admin of the group).
It's not the most obvious/intuitive system but it works well and imo this paradigm is actually better than most systems' multi-device support in that you can see which device someone is sending from and you can choose to give different contacts access to a different subset of your devices than others.
And it uses same tech as Signal.
However getting friends to join Simplex is complicated by two annoyances:
(1) It gets confused by an invite URL coming from facebook (it doesn't know to strip the appended Facebook tracking code - as trivial as it is).
(2) When the invite is via a QR code you must scan it with SimpleX not your native camera app. Invitees just give up.
Isn't the QR Code a link you could also open in a web browser?
No it isn't a URL. But that would indeed be the way they could make it work. If they did that, then...
If you don't have the app installed it installs it from the web site. If you have it installed then the app takes over instead of the web browser. That is how many apps work (eg Reddit).