A messenger is only as good as the people on it, and the first job after installing SecXChat is finding yours. Adding contacts is deliberately simple: SecXChat is built around phone numbers, so the people you already know are the people you can reach — no usernames to remember, no friend requests to wait for, no social account to connect.
The fastest way to start is the New Chat button. Open it and you will see the people from your phone's address book who already use SecXChat, ready to message. Tap a name and the chat opens; type your first message and you are talking. If someone is not on the list, it usually means one of two things: they have not installed SecXChat yet, or the number saved in your phone is not the number they signed up with. Check the number first — a missing country code or an old number is the most common reason a familiar name does not appear.
You can also add someone from inside a chat. When a stranger or a new acquaintance messages you, or when you meet someone in a group, their profile carries an Add to Contact card. Saving them from there stores them with a name you choose, so the next time they message you see a name instead of a bare number. It is a small step, but it is what turns a list of numbers into a list of people — and it is worth doing the moment you meet someone, while you still remember who they are.
Groups are the third way people find each other. When you join a group, you can see its members, and tapping a member opens their profile, from where you can message them directly or save them as a contact. This is how most new connections on SecXChat actually happen: not through searching, but through a group, a community, or a friend introducing you in a chat. If someone you do not know messages you first, the same profile screen is where you decide what to do — save them, reply, or block and report them if the message is unwanted. Blocking is instant and private, and it sits on every profile for exactly this reason.
A few habits keep your contacts tidy. Save people under the name you actually call them, not the formal name on their account, so your chat list reads like your life. If a contact changes their number, update the saved number rather than starting a fresh thread — your chat history stays with the conversation, not with the digits. And if you ever lose your phone, your chats can be restored from backup on the new one, but your contacts themselves live in your phone's address book, so keeping that backed up matters just as much.
It is also worth knowing what adding a contact does and does not do. Saving someone means you recognise them and can reach them in one tap; it does not give them anything new about you, and it does not tell them you saved them. Your phone number is how people reach you on SecXChat, so anyone you message sees it — that is the trade of a phone-number messenger, and it is why the block and report controls sit on every profile. Save the people you trust, block the ones you do not, and let the contact list be a small, honest map of who you actually talk to.
SecXChat signs you up with just a phone number and a one-time code — no password, no email — and contacts work the same way: a number is an identity, and a saved name is how you recognise it. Add the people who matter, save them properly the first time, and the app quietly gets out of the way and lets you talk to them.
If someone you want to reach is not on SecXChat yet, the honest answer is that you cannot message them inside the app until they join — there is no way to send a SecXChat message to a number that has no account. What you can do is tell them about it outside the app, in person or on the messenger you already share, and point them to the official download page. Once they install and sign up with their number, they appear in your New Chat list and the conversation starts. It is a small extra step the first time, and it is the same step every messenger with a phone-number identity asks for.
