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And yet I still can't back up or transfer my message history out of my iPhone/to Android. Priorities.
by popol12 3y ago
And yet I still can't back up or transfer my message history out of my iPhone/to Android. Priorities.
- sneak 3y agoI don't think this is a very common use case. When I switched to Signal, I stopped preserving my message history. I now have 4 week expirations on all chats by default.
- JoshTriplett 3y ago> I don't think this is a very common use case. It's the use case that prevents me from recommending Signal to anyone I know. Some people may not value that data, and may choose to deliberately throw it away; that's their choice. But it shouldn't get lost because of a lost or broken phone.
- sneak 3y agoYou can restore from Android to Android, and from iOS to iOS. I don't think it's very often that people switch phone platforms, given the enormous switching costs engineered by Apple and Google to avoid competition on merit.
- adastra22 3y agoMessage history isn’t saved in backups. Restoring your phone does not preserve message history.
- sneak 3y agoWe are talking about restoring chat history in-app from one phone to another phone. The Signal app allows you to transfer its state (which you correctly note is not stored in backups) from Signal running on one phone to Signal running on a second phone on the same LAN. The serialization (I guess) is different on iOS and Android so it only works between phones running the same OS. A lost or broken phone does indeed render the chat history toast, however.
- taway1237 3y agoI value ma data, that's why I don't keep important information in random chats. But I digress. If you care about losing your history, the proper solution is backing it up, right? Signal does support that.
- sneak 3y agoIt does not, at least not on iOS.