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by GeekyBear 2478 days ago
From my perspective, receiving an encrypted message, decrypting it, and displaying it for the user is the only thing a messaging app that is not running should be able to do.

I literally can't think of a single other thing that should happen unless and until the user opens the app, at which time the app can open an encrypted connection to the server and exchange any sorts of messages it likes.