Techlore @techlore.tech · Sep 8 Signal just rolled out secure backups, a heavily requested feature! Your message history can finally survive phone disasters. End-to-end encrypted backups that refresh daily, with a 64-character recovery key that never leaves your device. Here's how it works... 🧵
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Free tier: 10mb of messages + last 45 days of media Paid tier ($1.99/month): Full media history backup Signal says media storage costs real money, and as a nonprofit that doesn't sell data, they need to cover those costs somehow.
How will this work if I have an expiration timer on messages? Does this mean, regardless of the expiration timer, those messages live on in the backups?