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   Yoz (yoz@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 05-Jul-2024 22:34:57 JST Yoz

   Wow, Signal makes it far easier to accidentally wipe out your entire message history than to transfer it between devices, doesn’t it?

   So long, all those valuable conversations!

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     Yoz (yoz@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 06-Jul-2024 01:08:42 JST Yoz

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     So my iPhone died and was replaced. iPad and Mac still had Signal message history.

     Signal on new phone asked to use iPad to restore, but QR code thing didn’t fully work.

     Then on iPad, there’s a “relink with phone” button. Hit that, it immediately wipes history and proceeds from there. No warning, no apparent way to restore.

     (Just in case anyone from Signal is reading: many of these screens also lack a “Cancel” button. Have to kill and restart app.)

     clacke@libranet.de is my main likes this.
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     clacke@libranet.de is my main (notclacke@fedia.social)'s status on Saturday, 06-Jul-2024 01:09:58 JST clacke@libranet.de is my main

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     @yoz Signal and WhatsApp are both very unclear on how you're supposed to do this correctly.