Introducing Signal Secure Backups
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In the past, if you broke or lost your phone, your Signal message history was gone. This has been a challenge for people whose most important conversations happen on Signal. Think family photos, sweet messages, important documents, or anything else you don’t want to lose forever. This explains wh...
    • Longpork3@lemmy.nzEnglish
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      13 hours ago

      I thought they already did this? Wasn’t that their justification for killing integrated SMS?

      • bigchunga@feddit.onlineEnglish
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        5 hours ago

        As far as I know they added usernames which you use to identify people. But to sign up you still need a phone number to verify through a code they send you.