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I think the problem is losing access to a phone. For example because it gets dropped or stolen. The lack of good message backups on iOS makes me hesitant to re

• Mediterraneo10 6y ago
  At least on Signal for Android, you can make all the periodic backups of your Signal messages that you want: just be sure to copy the most recent backup file from your phone to another computer, and keep the encryption key (i.e. the sequence of numbers that Signal generates for you) written down somewhere. Then, if your phone does get dropped or stolen, you will have only lost messages since your last backup.
  • pseudalopex 6y ago
    Signal for iOS goes out of its way to prevent this.
  • izacus 6y ago
    The Android backups are also to SD card only - you "just" need to manually handle cron jobs to copy off device, "just" make sure you copy of a really long key (you're not allowed to enter yourself) and "just" hope that a year down the road you still find all of those data. It's a horribly shitty user experience all but most mindful techies. The issue with Signal is that their developers fundamentally don't value the content of conversations in the way that millions of other people do - people send photos of their loved ones, have meaningful conversations and they fundamentally care about not losing them. Signal developers think that that's all worthless and needs to be destroyed ASAP.