SignalSep 8, 2025

Until now, if you lost or broke your phone, your Signal message history was gone, a real challenge for everyone whose most important conversations happen in Signal. So, with careful design & development, we’re rolling out opt-in secure backups.

Secure backups will let you save an archive of your Signal messages remotely in privacy-preserving form, refreshed daily.

Now available in the latest Android beta release, rolling out to iOS & Desktop soon

https://signal.org/blog/introducing-secure-backups/

Introducing Signal Secure Backups

In the past, if you broke or lost your phone, your Signal message history was gone. This has been a challenge for people whose most important conversations happen on Signal. Think family photos, sweet messages, important documents, or anything else you don’t want to lose forever. This explains wh...

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Show thread(ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧*:･ﾟ✧Sep 8, 2025

@signalapp Wait, so backups are to signals servers? I can’t store it where I want it? That sucks

Edit: I see now these features are planned in the backup-roadmap! Awesome work, can’t wait

Show threadJoel  
@tweece @signalapp you can already backup locally and move that wherever
Sep 8, 2025 at 4:32pmWeb
Show thread(ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧*:･ﾟ✧Sep 8, 2025
@joel @signalapp Not on iOS
Show threadJoel  Sep 8, 2025
@tweece @signalapp oh right, oh well :/
Show threadMaxi 12x 💉Sep 8, 2025
@joel @tweece It’s super strange that the article makes no mention at all about local backups on Android (for the last 15 years!). But the pictured phone isn’t an iPhone.
Show threadmotofixSep 8, 2025
@joel @tweece @signalapp yes, but the backup file only gets bigger and bigger, making it hard to sync on regular basis (11G for me). What we need is local incremental backup to be used with sync tool like nextcloud.