Yeah that’s Android only. If you drop your iPhone in a toilet, or if you need to factory reset it for any reason, everything in signal is gone. Even if you backup your device with the system backup feature, Signal sets a flag on all the files it writs to disk so they are excluded from all backups.
It’s been the number one feature request on their iPhone community support channel for six years, and the official response is basically “it was a mistake to add backup to Android, we won’t do it on iPhone”.
You can backup your messages on Android at least
Yeah that’s Android only. If you drop your iPhone in a toilet, or if you need to factory reset it for any reason, everything in signal is gone. Even if you backup your device with the system backup feature, Signal sets a flag on all the files it writs to disk so they are excluded from all backups.
It’s been the number one feature request on their iPhone community support channel for six years, and the official response is basically “it was a mistake to add backup to Android, we won’t do it on iPhone”.
Do they give a reason, or just “lawl no, sux 2 b u”?
I get it but I also see it as a feature too.
How?
settings > chat > chat backup