I hope they look into how they are treating desktop clients as secondary devices with extra hassle. I'll try it if they address that.
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Really? The only problem I've had on desktop is the very frequent updates
No gifs is a minor bummer.
Gifs work if you add them from your PC rather than from an URL. Download it, pull it into chat, gift works. It's not as easy as it should be, but at least it has a workaround
That's great news - but more importantly... is there a way to backup my messages yet?
You can backup your messages on Android at least
Yeah that's Android only. If you drop your iPhone in a toilet, or if you need to factory reset it for any reason, everything in signal is gone. Even if you backup your device with the system backup feature, Signal sets a flag on all the files it writs to disk so they are excluded from all backups.
It's been the number one feature request on their iPhone community support channel for six years, and the official response is "We will probably never add that feature. We understand that's frustrating. Stop wasting our time by asking for it". Meanwhile every day someone, somewhere, loses all of their message history.
I get it but I also see it as a feature too.
Does it not backup to a computer with iTunes, the same way WhatsApp and iMessage does?
Do they give a reason, or just "lawl no, sux 2 b u"?
Another reason to switch to Signal if you don't already use it.