[ValentineC]

> You uninstall WhatsApp and tell your closest family and friends that they can only reach you on Signal. Because you are so important to them, they will install Signal as a backup/secondary app.

I'll be the one friend that'll insist on SMS/email. I’ll even offer to use some other supposedly encrypted method like Keybase or Matrix. If that doesn't work as a fallback, then I guess we can agree to disagree, and someone else can play the middleperson for us. :)

I refuse to use Signal because it doesn't offer chat sync, or message preservation if I either lose or have to wipe my phone.

[thekyle]

One of the benefits of Signal is that it can also do SMS on Android, so it works great with people like you who insist on using that. Your SMS messages will appear right alongside the native Signal ones in the app.

[aidenn0]

You can backup your signal message DB; maybe not as nice as iCloud, but I guess you get what you pay for?

[pmlnr]

> I refuse to use Signal because it doesn't offer chat sync

Install Pidgin with signald ;)

[fsdfgsfsdfsdfsd]

How do you sync and preserve your SMS? Whenever I migrate phones, it is always the most painful part.

[ValentineC]

I back my messages up to iCloud.

For Android devices, I've been using the SMS Backup & Restore app [1] since Android ~2.1 or so.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.riteshsahu...