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 threadtuxwiseSep 8, 2025

@signalapp

  • Why is this remote-only?
  • Where is my backup stored, exactly?
  • What guarantees are you giving concerning the availability of one's backup?
  • Why is this still, in 2025, all tied to smartphones, and to phone numbers, with desktop applications being only second-class citizens of the ecosystem?
    • Show threadQuixoticgeek
    @tuxwise @signalapp you can already do an on device backup. You can even make it do the backup every day. Write down the encryption key, and keep it in a safe place. No remote needed. This has been available at least in android for years.
    Sep 8, 2025 at 11:46pmWeb
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    @quixoticgeek @tuxwise @signalapp and they're no longer tired to phone numbers... *I believe*, there are user names you can use now. Although I've not.