SecXChat 2.1.33 is live, and it fixes the one thing owners of the app asked about most: screenshot and screen-recording alerts that you can actually see. If you have ever taken a screenshot in a chat and wondered whether the other person was told — or been on the receiving end and seen nothing at all — this is the update that closes that gap. It is available now from the download page, and the app prompts you to install it.
The headline change is simple. When someone takes a screenshot or starts a screen recording in a protected chat, an alert now appears as a bubble inside the chat itself, on both sides. Before this version, alerts could land in the chat-list preview while the open chat stayed silent, which meant the person who most needed to see the warning often missed it. In 2.1.33 the bubble paints in the open conversation, so the warning is visible exactly where the capture happened.
The second fix is about noise. You no longer get a notification for your own captures. If you screenshot your own chat, only the other person is notified — your phone stays quiet, because telling you about something you just did yourself was never useful. That one change removes a whole class of confusing self-notifications that used to arrive after every capture.
The alerts cover the places where a capture matters most. Screenshots are watched for in chats, in view-once media, on profile photos and on contact cards, so a capture of something sensitive is visible in the conversation rather than silent. A recording works the same way: it is the act of capturing that is reported, not the content of what was captured, and the alert never shows the captured image itself — it simply tells the chat that a capture happened, and when.
Screen recordings get a fuller treatment too. A recording is not a single moment, so a single alert never told the whole story. In 2.1.33, recording alerts now show the start and end time for every chat they touch. If someone records while switching between chats, each chat gets its own closing alert with its own times, so the record is honest about what was captured and when. Combined with the bubble in the chat, a recording can no longer pass silently.
There is a quieter privacy fix in this release as well. A deleted message never shows in the chat-list preview again. Deleting a message for everyone removes it from both chats and leaves a short note in its place; the preview outside the chat used to risk showing the old text, which defeated the point of deleting it. That hole is closed in 2.1.33, so what you delete stays deleted from every surface of the app.
Startup is faster too. The app no longer runs a heavy sync in the first seconds after opening, so your chats appear sooner and the app feels ready the moment you tap it. On slower connections and older phones this is the difference between an app that opens and an app that makes you wait, and it is the same offline-first approach SecXChat is built on: your chats are there first, and the network catches up behind them.
The rest of the release is stability improvements — the kind of work that shows up as fewer freezes and fewer odd moments rather than as a new button. If you are still on an older build, this is a good one to take. Download the latest version from the official download page and install it over your current app; your chats and settings stay exactly as they are. Always update from the official site, never from an app file sent by a stranger, so you know the build is genuine.
What comes next is already in motion: the next update brings the message reminder feature that is live on the web side of SecXChat, and the permission screen keeps getting clearer about what your phone actually allows. For now, 2.1.33 is the version to be on — alerts you can see, no alerts about yourself, deleted messages that stay deleted, and a faster start every time you open the app.
How do you know you have it? Open the app and check for updates from your account area, or look at the version on the download page — the current release is 2.1.33, and the update sheet will offer it if you are on an older build. Installing it takes a minute and keeps everything where it was: your chats, your backup schedule, your PIN, and your settings all carry over. If the app ever asks you to update before opening, that is the same release doing its job — take it, and the new alerts are live the moment the app restarts.
