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Re:Signal Secure Backups by anilakar on Tuesday September 09, 2025 @01:36AM (#45177800)
If you restore the backup on a new phone, you'll have to resync all desktop machines, and at least on Windows syncing old messages has never worked for me.
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Re:Signal Secure Backups by poisonborz on Tuesday September 09, 2025 @04:06AM (#45178963)
Signal never syncs old messages on secondary clients for security reasons.
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Re:Signal Secure Backups by privacyking on Tuesday September 09, 2025 @04:29AM (#45179158)
I don't think that's true anymore. They added message history syncing
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Re:Signal Secure Backups by anilakar on Tuesday September 09, 2025 @05:27AM (#45179636)
They do. They also offer to do it when you link your desktop client, and like I said, it works on Linux but gives an error message on Windows.

Also, considering that linking requires access to your existing device I don't see an issue with that. Moxie himself considered usability to be more important than tinfoil hat-level crypto because large-scale adoption is what enables security.

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Re:Signal Secure Backups by AnonC on Wednesday September 10, 2025 @12:50AM (#45193421)
> They do.

The limitation is that only message history from the past 45 days would be synced. If this has changed recently to allow syncing all message history, I’d be thrilled!

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