Nice. Now please finally give us iOS cloud backups before i break or loose my phone and years of conversations get evaporated.
I don't want backups for IM. I don't want my counter-parties to have backups for e2e encrypted IM. I don't want IM to last. Why record every conversation on your permanent record? It's nuts.
For me, having a searchable record of everything said defeats the whole purpose if IM and e2e encryption. I'm sure the NSA like it.
Reasonable people may differ on it.
That's not your choice to make.
I don't want to be randomly assaulted on the street, also not my choice to make. Doesn't make it ok imho.
The encryption key is in cleartext on desktop and the SQLite db is right next to it: ~/Library/Application Support/Signal/config.json
Sadly, from what I’ve seen in similar threads online, it seems the devs are opposed to backups in principle (they believe that chats should be ephemeral and backing up is antithetical to this).
"No one can read your chats, including you." — Signal
Still, I feel it's much more inconvenient than it really needs to be; the correct UX is a button press.
For people worried about having not consented to other peoples backup. They could implement ephemeral-only chats, or backup-excluded chats where both parties have to agree to changes.