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 threadJames M.Sep 8, 2025
    @tuxwise @signalapp you can use an alphanumeric username instead of a phone number. That's been true for a few years.
    Show threadalgolSep 8, 2025

    @jamesmarshall @tuxwise @signalapp

    Not to register. That is the point.

    Show thread👊🇺🇸🔥Sep 8, 2025
    @algol @jamesmarshall @tuxwise @signalapp You can hide your phone number from people you talk to and from being searched. It's under privacy in the settings.
    Show threadalgolSep 9, 2025

    @Avitus

    Are you kidding?

    The piont is to hide it from @signalapp.

    Show thread👊🇺🇸🔥
    @algol @signalapp For what reason? They don't, because they can't, associate phone numbers with identifying information. https://signal.org/bigbrother/
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    When legally forced to provide information to government or law enforcement agencies, we'll disclose the transcripts of that communication here.

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    Show threadalgolSep 9, 2025

    @Avitus @signalapp

    If they don't need the numbers, why refuse to allow anonymous register with nick, when I have to tell my friends the nick (because of the hided number 😇) anyway?

    We have this discussion for years now.

    And what @signalapp tell us, noone have a chance to control.

    If (like in some countries) your life depends on e2e and anonymity, you don't trust such things.