In the past, if you broke or lost your phone, your Signal message history was gone. This has been a challenge for people whose most important conversations happen on Signal. Think family photos, sweet messages, important documents, or anything else you don’t want to lose forever. This explains wh...
  • Tja@programming.dev
    3·
    3 months ago

    I’m confused. Wasn’t there a secure backup functionality? How are they “introducing” it?

    I migrated my signal history twice already… Not three times, because last year the backup always failed at 9%, no matter what I tried for a week, losing the better part of a decade of messages in the process.

    Maybe they fixed the functionality?

  • Hirom@beehaw.org
    21·
    3 months ago

    Nice. I hope it makes Signal suitable for public official required to archive communications.

    Currently signal users probably have no backup, or use a Signal fork that support archiving in a less secure way.