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For hardware compatibility issues, refer to our [[known issues|support/known_issues]].
06/10/2025
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<h2 id="unetbootin">Can I install Tails with UNetbootin, YUMI, Ventoy, or another tool?</h2>
04/02/2025
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It is technically possible to use Tails to create other onion services, but it is complicated and we have no plans to document this.
01/29/2025
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*Telegram Web* does not work in *Tor Browser* as of January 2025. *Telegram
Web* has been working in *Tor Browser* in the past and might work again in
the future.
01/23/2025
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*WhatsApp Web* works in *Tor Browser* as of January 2025. *WhatsApp Web* has
been unreliable in *Tor Browser* in the past and might stop working in the
future.
01/23/2025
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To create a *Signal* account for a new telephone number from Tails, follow
this tutorial on [registering an account using
`signal-cli`](https://0xacab.org/about.privacy/messengers-on-tails-os/-/wikis/Signal/Registration-and-Provisioning-via-signal-cli).
01/23/2025
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You can follow this tutorial to [install *Signal Desktop* on
Tails](https://0xacab.org/about.privacy/messengers-on-tails-os/-/wikis/Signal/Install-Signal-desktop)
and link to an existing *Signal* account.
01/23/2025
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Current alternatives:
01/23/2025
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In Tails, you can already chat over XMPP using [[Pidgin|doc/anonymous_internet/pidgin]] and create anonymous chat rooms using [[OnionShare|doc/anonymous_internet/onionshare]].
01/23/2025
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Because no single app will ever meet the needs of all our users, we might also make it easier to install other messaging apps. ([[!tails_ticket 14567]])
01/23/2025
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Adding [*Signal*](https://signal.org/) is very high in our priorities but complicated because *Signal* is not available in Debian by default and updates very often.
01/23/2025
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<h2 id="messaging">Can I use messaging apps like WhatsApp, Telegram, or Signal in Tails?</h2>
01/23/2025
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Tails [[was founded|news/celebrating_10_years]] in 2009 and [[joined forces with Tor|news/tails_tor]] in 2024.
11/20/2024
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Tails is part of the [Tor Project](https://torproject.org/).
11/20/2024
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If burned on a DVD, then this DVD would be outdated on the next release. This means after 4 weeks at most.
05/29/2024
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No.
05/27/2024
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Our team sometimes publishes emergency releases, whenever important security upgrades are available in Debian or *Tor Browser* before the next scheduled release.
05/27/2024
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If you upgrade the system yourself using `apt` or *Synaptic*, you might break things.
05/27/2024
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Tails provides upgrades every 4 weeks, which are thoroughly tested to make sure that no security feature or configuration gets broken.
05/27/2024
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No. Upgrading whenever you get a notification from *[[Tails Upgrader|doc/upgrade]]* is enough.
05/27/2024

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