Yeah, no backup on iOS is such a huge turnoff. What you live in the real world and lost or damaged your phone? All your messages and pictures you not exported one by one are gone, backups in 2025 no way, who has every been using such a thing? Maybe in 2035.

I'm another one of those that refuse to use Signal until they implement proper backups.

If people insist on me using Signal to communicate with them, these people probably have far-too-inflexible values concerning privacy for me to bother anyway.

You can use imazing to do it and/or scripts if they are synced to macos.

Im not a huge fan of crypto, but I understand its use. I just don’t use it. It’s completely invisible if you don’t use it.