Signal Secure Backups

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988 points keyboardJones | 2 comments | 08 Sep 25 16:43 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source

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gardnr ◴[08 Sep 25 18:22 UTC] No.45171893[source]▶

I am happy to see Signal charging for premium features.

From a product perspective, being able to switch between two iOS devices without a 3rd iOS device shouldn’t be a premium feature.

Please consider enabling local backup and restore for a single Signal instance on iOS.

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palata ◴[08 Sep 25 22:44 UTC] No.45175094[source]▶

> being able to switch between two iOS devices without a 3rd iOS device

I have moved Signal from an iOS device to a new iOS device multiple times. Why do you need a 3rd one?

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gardnr ◴[09 Sep 25 02:35 UTC] No.45176740[source]▶

I have two phone numbers.

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palata ◴[09 Sep 25 08:56 UTC] No.45179383[source]▶

On the same iOS device? I didn't know that iPhones supported multiple SIMs!

1. gardnr ◴[09 Sep 25 19:07 UTC] No.45187117{3}[source]▶

Yeah! You can have many eSIMs, but the iPhone only has two radios, so only two SIMs can be "active" (connected to towers) at any time.

Signal doesn't support multiple phone numbers on the same device. I have two phones:

1. Old iPhone: +55-555-5555

2. New iPhone: +1-867-5309

I would prefer to have the numbers swapped on the devices. There isn't a way to do this without "transferring"[1] the messages to a 3rd iOS device.

This is an awkward edge-case that would be ameliorated by allowing local file backup / restore.

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2. palata ◴[09 Sep 25 21:05 UTC] No.45189118[source]▶

> This is an awkward edge-case that would be ameliorated by allowing local file backup / restore.

Feels like it would be better to support multiple phone numbers on the same device. But yeah... that's work and probably not a super common use-case.