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988 points keyboardJones | 4 comments | 08 Sep 25 16:43 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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nikeee ◴[08 Sep 25 20:43 UTC] No.45173714[source]▶
> alongside features that let you transfer your encrypted message history between Android, iOS, and Desktop devices.

That's actually the feature I've been looking forward to. As I moved vom Android to iOS, I lost _all_ message histories from all messenger apps that use E2EE (Signal, WhatsApp, Threema, etc). The only one that "just worked" was Telegram due to not being encrypted. WhatsApp had a migration app that has to be done when setting up the iPhone, but it failed due to some bug. Signal had backups, but they didn't seem to be compatible between different OS versions.

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nar001 ◴[08 Sep 25 21:25 UTC] No.45174202[source]▶
You already can, if you at least set up desktop, you can transfer also message history, though you won't have your media older than 45 days. Maybe it can work as a stopgap before they roll out encrypeted backups everywhere
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1. zbrozek ◴[08 Sep 25 23:54 UTC] No.45175680[source]▶
That's a weird and crappy arbitrary limitation when I could move an arbitrary amount of data between the two devices otherwise. It's the worst part of Signal.
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2. rjzzleep ◴[09 Sep 25 02:22 UTC] No.45176666[source]▶
On top of that you don't have that limitation on Android. It's like enterprise IT, where you put up restrictions everywhere on files and then people can upload files to their personal one drive.
3. anilakar ◴[09 Sep 25 05:33 UTC] No.45177783[source]▶
It also does not work on Windows clients but errors out. Android and Linux are fine.
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4. nar001 ◴[09 Sep 25 10:10 UTC] No.45179941[source]▶
It does for me, sure why it errors out for you