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ChatSecure is a free and open source encrypted chat client for iOS that supports OTR and OMEMO encryption over XMPP.
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Warn that the application should not be swiped away #991

Open marmistrz opened 6 years ago

marmistrz commented 6 years ago

Many users will not be aware that this will prevent ChatSecure from working correctly, as stated here: https://github.com/ChatSecure/ChatSecure-iOS/issues/902#issuecomment-349568449

Commercial IMs warn about it, e.g. WhatsApp shows a warning:

Swiping to close WhatsApp can prevent you from receiving notifications

It would be a good idea to show a similar notification in ChatSecure.

Echolon commented 6 years ago

I agree, that we may should do that tempoarily - but in the future ChatSecure should rather try to get "Voip-App status" (or what ever helps to use that API).

Because I just imagine how they'll drop it like "what a shitty app" unfortunately....

If you do so - let them choose to not show it again with a tick button

marmistrz commented 6 years ago

@Echolon yes, the VoIP-app status (or whatever is needed to get around Apple's silly restrictions) should be the aim. Anyway, claiming that WhatsApp does it should be convincing enough for most users.

Btw. most people who use ChatSecure are most probably people asked by their geek friends, so I wouldn't care about the what a shitty app argument so much. It's more the thing that they may accidentally swipe it away and miss IM messages, getting frustrated that they have not received an important one.

chrisballinger commented 6 years ago

When and how does WhatsApp display that notification?

marmistrz commented 6 years ago

@chrisballinger sorry for the delay. The friend of mine who uses an iPhone described it this way:

after sliding the app up to close it, a notification would appear it would say that closing the app might result in not receiving notifications but apparently this notification does not appear now