Update Registration and Provisioning via signal cli authored by about:privacy's avatar about:privacy
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**Replace $PHONE_NR with your phone number using the international format (e. g. +15758941234 for a number registered in Truth or consequences, New Mexico)** **Replace $PHONE_NR with your phone number using the international format (e. g. +15758941234 for a number registered in Truth or consequences, New Mexico)**
_Tip: If you want to acquire an anonymous phone number for registering signal, one can do so using free temporary phone numbers for receiving text messages online. For example https://quackr.io/ is quite reliable service if you choose numbers of so-called "Western countries". Please note, that everyone can re-register your phone number with signal, revoking your access to your newly acquired number. Therefore [set a registration lock PIN](#Registration-and-registration-lock-pin) immediately after successful verification. Receive/send messages **at least once every 7 days** in order to keep your number. This is the reason why many of the freely available numbers can not be registered with signal w/o PIN, 'cause they already have been registered by someone else who subsequently set a registration lock pin. Be patient and keep trying newly added numbers should do the trick._ _Tip: If you want to acquire an anonymous phone number for registering signal, one can do so using free temporary phone numbers for receiving text messages online. For example https://quackr.io/ is quite reliable service if you choose numbers of so-called "Western countries". Please note, that everyone can re-register your phone number with signal, revoking your access to your newly acquired number. Therefore [set a registration lock PIN](#Registration-and-registration-lock-pin) immediately after successful verification. Receive/send messages **at least once every 7 days** in order to keep your number. **[Signal is changing the re-registration condition's forth and back](https://blog.privacyguides.org/2022/11/10/signal-number-registration-update/), so this method might not work for keeping an anonymous phone number forever.** This is the reason why many of the freely available numbers can not be registered with signal w/o PIN, 'cause they already have been registered by someone else who subsequently set a registration lock pin. Be patient and keep trying newly added numbers should do the trick._
## Registration and registration lock pin ## Registration and registration lock pin
1. Follow steps 1 through 5 at section [General use of signal-cli on Tails](#General-use-of-signal-cli-on-Tails) 1. Follow steps 1 through 5 at section [General use of signal-cli on Tails](#General-use-of-signal-cli-on-Tails)
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