Perhaps the biggest pain-points with Signal on iOS for the longest time has been that there was simply no comfortable way to back up conversations and/or migrate them to a new device (e.g. if you got a new phone). Just a couple of months ago this made me go on a screenshot-marathon, taking many thousands of pictures of conversations my partner and I had had before I got my current phone in 2018.
It took many hours spanning over two days to do so but at least now I had some kind of access to our old messages and could wipe the old phone. Looks like this might have been the last time I will have to do something like that, though! After all these years, Signal for iOS finally has a way to transfer all data when migrating to a new phone! Their website has a detailed description of how to do the migration and also of how the feature works internally!
We recognize that this feature doesn’t cover every single scenario, but we think it’s a good start. We plan on continuing to make improvements to this functionality in the future.
I hope this means that work on a backup solution for iOS will received priority in the future 😅
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Alternatively, this website also supports Webmentions. If you write a post on a blog that supports this technique, I should get notified about your link 🙂