Doesn’t verification also exchange encryption keys, letting you decrypt messages from before you logged in? I remember that being a huge issue where you would see unable to decrypt messages.

Probably just bad UX to let people skip the verification step.

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pkulak 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Yes. If you don’t verify, every conversation is empty.

	▲	joecool1029 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		But it also asks for recovery key and complains about it being out of sync until entered even if you do the verification step! Entirely possible to only get a partial recovery of messages until this is entered.