Signal’s Secure Message Backups Arrive On Ios

Signal is launching unafraid backups connected iOS, allowing you to prevention and reconstruct your messages successful lawsuit you suffer aliases break your phone. With nan free type of nan feature, you tin shop up to 100MB of matter messages, on pinch nan past 45 days’ worthy of photos, videos, GIFs, and files.

There’s besides a $1.99 per period action that tin backmost up each of your matter messages, successful summation to up to 100GB of media beyond nan 45-day cap. Signal first launched unafraid backups connected Android devices successful September, which shop your messages and media utilizing end-to-end encryption. You tin entree your backup utilizing a 64-character betterment cardinal generated connected your device, though Signal notes that it can’t thief you retrieve nan codification if you suffer it.

To alteration unafraid backups, caput to nan Settings paper and prime Backups. From there, pat Setup > Enable Backups and past constitute down aliases shop your betterment key. Once you corroborate your betterment key, you tin take betwixt nan free aliases paid plan. Signal will past statesman storing your messages and media.

Signal plans connected bringing unafraid backups to its desktop app, too, and will yet let you to transportation your encrypted messaging history betwixt Android, iOS, and desktop.