Signal

If privacy matters to you, Signal is one of the best messaging apps you can install on a new iPhone. It’s built around secure communication, with end-to-end encrypted messages, voice calls, video calls, and group chats. 

That may sound like something only privacy enthusiasts care about, but these days, privacy matters more than you might think. It gives you a clean, modern messaging app that better protects your conversations without making it hard to use.

While the design and user interface aren’t on the same level, Signal basically works just like apps like WhatsApp. You can send pictures, GIFs, or stickers. You can also make calls and do pretty much anything that all the other messaging apps do. 

You also don’t need to choose Signal over other messaging apps; you can keep both and use them with specific friends or family when you want to keep things private.