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Amidst this positive news, note that Wire does not allow you to export your chat data, if you ever decide it’s not for you. I recall that this was an explicit d
by newscracker 5y ago
Amidst this positive news, note that Wire does not allow you to export your chat data, if you ever decide it’s not for you. I recall that this was an explicit decision by the company. Its backups are also platform specific. So if you switch from one mobile platform to another (or between desktop platforms or any other combination), you can’t restore your chats from a backup.
I still like that Wire doesn’t require a phone number, is multi platform and syncs conversations across all devices. But the above caveats meant that I had to stop using it.
- lewisl9029 5y agoWell, that's unfortunate. I gave Wire a try quite a while ago and left because of these exact issues. Was hoping that they might have addressed them by now, but looks like that's not the case. What I really want is an E2E encrypted messaging app that handles message history the way normal people would want and expect, i.e. all past messages on all devices kept forever and never randomly lost, unless manually deleted. Would love suggestions if people know something that fits the bill.