Mastodawn

So, transfering my old Signal messages from my old phone to my new with the transfer feature was impossible. So now I try with making a backup on the old phone and importing it on the new instead.

I re-registered my old phone, made the backup, sent it to the new phone (thank you, #LocalSend!), re-registered my new phone, and…

Going to Settings -> Backups -> On-device backups, it just says "Open the app and tap Restore backup" Ok, but where!? What!?

#signal

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Felix Mar 14

@forteller

You can only import a local backup when you set up signal the first time (on a device)

So if you tried to use signal on the new phone already, you might need to reinstall it.

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Børge

@newhinton I see. Thank you! This is confusing