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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@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 threadDavid FleetwoodSep 8, 2025
@tweece @signalapp Read the article, it's in the roadmap to choose your backup.
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@reflex @signalapp Welp you caught me, I didn’t read to the bottom.

“The technology that underpins this initial version of secure backups will also serve as the foundation for more secure backup options in the near future. Our future plans include letting you save a secure backup archive to the location of your choosing, alongside features that let you transfer your encrypted message history between Android, iOS, and Desktop devices.”

This is incredible news! So excited for these features, especially being able to move history between platforms

Show threadDavid Fleetwood
@tweece @signalapp Yeah, they probably should have put that in the blurb they posted here, would have eliminated all but one of the negative responses I've seen.

I'm mixed on Signal, but it's the best option that I can get most people to actually use.
Sep 8, 2025 at 4:53pmWeb
Show thread(ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧*:･ﾟ✧Sep 8, 2025
@reflex @signalapp I finally got my main group chat to move to signal after a pixel joined and we got reverted to RCS, but that person eventually got an iPhone and we end up moving back to iMessage after complaints from the normies about needing to use yet another app. Oh well, I will win the battle someday, and in the meantime just be really annoying to all my friends about having advanced data protection enabled
Show threadDavid FleetwoodSep 8, 2025
@tweece @signalapp I have a private Matrix server for select friends and family, but I am under no illusions about moving regular people there, it won't happen. Signal is my second choice and seems mostly acceptable.
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@reflex @signalapp I haven’t heard of matrix before, looks awesome. I’ll check it out
Show threadDavid FleetwoodSep 8, 2025
@tweece @signalapp It's a mixed bag, very complicated to set up and administer, but the current director, @[email protected] is doing great work to improve it. If you go that route hit me up and I'll point you at an ansible repo that can automate much of it for you.