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The ability to forward more than one photo at a time. When someone reacts to a message I get a notification but there's no way of determining what message has been reacted to. The backup system to restore messages when changing phones is fragile and something I have to help less technical friends / family members with.

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> The ability to forward more than one photo at a time

This is already possible (on Android at least), and has been for a long while.

Long press on one, press "select" which allows you to select other photos, select the photos you like, and then press forward.

One issue with that is that if multiple photos are grouped together, you have to select the whole group, but you can definitely forward multiple photos in one go.

Sorry, I meant forward from an existing message. So if I want to share a bunch of photos from one group to another, I dont believe theres any way to select multiple photos (on iOS at least).

Weird, I can do this on Android.

Who are these older/less technical users that can't store text or images outside of an encrypted conversation, but somehow are still agile enough to search back through lengthy conversation histories?

Many people? The search box is right there, but filesystems confuse the crap out of people before mixing in the app/local file distinction.

I dont think I did a very good job of explaining what I mean. Im talking about the process to transfer Signal from one phone to another. In my experience it involves placing the phones near one another and transferring over bluetooth (I think) and this process has failed for me a number of times - a scary experience!

I did this but wired and everything worked fine. it just took awhile.

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