Cloud Backups in Signal

It appears that Signal is currently working on end to end encrypted cloud backups for iOS and Android.

It looks like there could be both free and paid plans. The free plan could provide full message text backups but only media backups from the last 30 days. The paid plan (for like, 3$/month) could provide full message text and media backups with a storage limit of 1TB.

NOTE: This feature is under active development and all of these details are subject to change.

Frankly, I think this feature being locked out behind the paywall in Signal kinda defeats it's purpose. But then, they might be the pioneers here who will be followed.

I don't think they have anything else to bundle this with - unless they'll start to slice out other features.

At the moment I can scroll up all way back to the day I started using telegram and only the remote media that are no longer accessible are missing - the rest is still here. But then, considering what happens in telegram, I wouldn't be surprised they would also eventually opt for similar restriction for free account to propeller their paid service.