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Re:Poll: Switching from WhatsApp by beertoagunfight on Thursday January 07, 2021 @09:07AM (#25671154)
That page, is also an article from 2017 :-)
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Re:Poll: Switching from WhatsApp by ValentineC on Thursday January 07, 2021 @09:37AM (#25671475)
I, too, from some other comments in this thread, just found out that chat history transfer has been a feature since June 2020: https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/9/21280664/signal-chat-trans...
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Re:Poll: Switching from WhatsApp by pedrocr on Thursday January 07, 2021 @11:19AM (#25672881)
That's an iOS specific new feature. Signal has had backups for a long time now.
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Re:Poll: Switching from WhatsApp by pedrocr on Thursday January 07, 2021 @11:18AM (#25672857)
The backup feature is not new.
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Re:Poll: Switching from WhatsApp by t-writescode on Thursday January 07, 2021 @07:50PM (#25679860)
The article is from 2017 and Signal added backups in 2018.
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Re:Poll: Switching from WhatsApp by pedrocr on Friday January 08, 2021 @03:56AM (#25682891)
My Signal message history goes back further than that but maybe the feature was added midway before I switched phones.
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