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As mentioned in parent comment: > Signal does not care about users and prevents backups on iOS. Lose your device or delete the app due to some issues and reins
by kitsunesoba 4y ago
As mentioned in parent comment:
> Signal does not care about users and prevents backups on iOS. Lose your device or delete the app due to some issues and reinstall? All your chats are gone!
Switching out devices is something that happens often enough for many users that transferring history should not be an ordeal. Even the most careful users will occasionally break their phones, and sometimes people need to switch platforms for whatever reason.
WhatsApp suffers from this issue too, at least when trying to migrate histories between platforms.
- em-bee 4y agojust to add, telegram can NOT transfer or back up E2E encrypted chats either. unencrypted chats transfer because they are saved on the telegram server. i think deltachat is possibly the only one that can transfer encrypted messages because you can copy the encryption keys and the messages are just mails, easy to copy (and usually stored on your mail server too) i don't know how matrix handles this, but from the way verification works there, i am not confident.
- lhoff 4y agoSignal can do that. Both on Android and iOS. What it can't do on iOS is to create regular Backups (which it can on Android). https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007059752-Backup-and-Restore-Messages https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007059752-Ba... I think it has something to do that Signal won't trust iCloud as Backup target.