[saurik]

Putting aside the complaints people have that this feature was flakey and didn't really work, this one use case isn't sufficient, as I usually switch to a new phone because my old one was destroyed... and I imagine this is the only reason people poorer than me get a new phone. Users need the ability to do non-transfer backups (which it sounds like this feature doesn't support).

The reality is that my iTunes (encrypted) backup should include my chat message history. That the Signal client on iOS (and maybe even on Android, as while it has backup I think it is a bespoke backup) has decided that somehow Signal chat message history isn't something one can backup at all (much less do using the user's standard backup and restore process) is kind of ridiculous.