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Same, they work fine and are immediate. The only exception has been Signal. Must be that I'm using sandboxed Google Play Services?

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I use sandboxed Google Play Services, Signal has been fine... I cannot say it's always immediate (I'm not always on my phone :-) ), but I have never been frustrated for "missing" a notification. Like when I check my phone, the Signal messages are there, they don't appear 3 days later.

Oh, they certainly don't appear days later. But sometimes they do between ~1-30 minutes. This is a well-known issue, you can find many topic about it. When you open the app, everything comes in all at onec.

It is sometimes annoying to me. I cycle a lot and sometimes my wife or somebody else sends a message when I'm on the go (like picking up some extra groceries) and then I miss it.

There is a longer discussion with various people here:

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/14166

I see, I don't know. 1-30min could totally go under my radar :-). When it's urgent I ask people to call me.

So yeah, I can totally accept that this may be a thing.

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