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 threadzaire arcanaSep 8, 2025
@signalapp ok how about not tying every user to a phone to begin with
Show threadThibaultmol 🌈Sep 8, 2025
@soop @signalapp signal implemented usernames this year...
Edit: see replies, fair enough
Show threadAprettyture! [0172]Sep 8, 2025
@thibaultmol @soop @signalapp did you know that raccoons douse their food in water not to wash it but to increase the sensitivity of their paws

- carrie
Show threadThibaultmol 🌈
@aperture @signalapp sorry, what does that have to do with the thread?
Sep 8, 2025 at 4:49pmWeb
Show threadAprettyture! [0172]Sep 8, 2025
@thibaultmol @signalapp i thought we were just sharing fun facts

honestly, im just giving you a hard time like look i think i get what you're getting at here but like, cmon kbfhvxnfbxfv
that's clearly not what shi's asking about, like sure maybe it's groundwork sure, but clearly it is not the feature described vcfhbfhbxv

not really gonna argue about this cause it'll waste everyone's time and i think youve got the gist of it, just want to be clear

- carrie