To do so would be making a security concession to the other members of the chat in that they no longer verify every destination of their message. Transferring or backing up history between disparate devices, which become trusted at different times, is one of those things that I think _is_ difficult to do without sacrificing security.įor example, in the classic case when a user adds a new device and wants history to be available on both you can't let the devices controlled by one person simply sync with one another. When you are treating security as a number one priority I think there are a lot of things that become technical issues which aren't typically. > It's not a technical issue - they just think you're wrong when you want to keep your conversations. I think it's astute of you to point out that the Signal developers do not value chat history the same way many people do, but I am not sure I track with this: Unfortunately that's can also be a significantly bigger issue than privacy for a lot of people.

It's not a technical issue - they just think you're wrong when you want to keep your conversations. This is why they will never let you make the backup process easy and portable. This is also why deskop app regularly happily just trashes all its state and fails to resync. They think that destroying all chats is a reasonable thing to do when things get hard - which is the exact opposite to many WhatsApp users, which deeply value images and texts sent to them on that platform.Īs such, they've been very very resistant at making the backup process for Signal easy for people. I've tried to report bugs and talk to developers about this but there's one fundamental problem here - the Signal team fundamentally does not value chat history the same way a lot of people do. However I really, really hope they can work on a good backup and restore process as losing my message history because I have to reinstall the app on my desktop or have to reset my phone is a horrible experience.

Transfer whatsapp to signal