If you restore the backup on a new phone, you'll have to resync all desktop machines, and at least on Windows syncing old messages has never worked for me.

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poisonborz 6 days ago | parent [-]

Signal never syncs old messages on secondary clients for security reasons.

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anilakar 6 days ago | parent | next [-]

They do. They also offer to do it when you link your desktop client, and like I said, it works on Linux but gives an error message on Windows.

Also, considering that linking requires access to your existing device I don't see an issue with that. Moxie himself considered usability to be more important than tinfoil hat-level crypto because large-scale adoption is what enables security.

	▲	AnonC 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		> They do. The limitation is that only message history from the past 45 days would be synced. If this has changed recently to allow syncing all message history, I’d be thrilled!

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privacyking 6 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I don't think that's true anymore. They added message history syncing