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988 points keyboardJones | 1 comments | 08 Sep 25 16:43 UTC | HN request time: 0.203s | 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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1. littlestymaar ◴[09 Sep 25 08:35 UTC] No.45179214[source]▶
> WhatsApp had a migration app that has to be done when setting up the iPhone, but it failed due to some bug.

It's appalling to see how poor there QA is for a company that big. They also have a migration tool for migrations between android devices without going through a Google drive, but this one didn't work either when I tried it two years ago.