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Any time an app has bizarre functionality gap on iOS, I assume it's because of Apple's anti-consumer bullshit app restrictions.

No idea if that's actually what's going on, but Apple thinks of their devices as appliances and hates when apps offer pro-customer features.





No. The Signal developers opted out of iOS's backup and export features.

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I have no idea why, but I would bet it's because it was sending stuff to Apple unencrypted.

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It's because Signal has some unhealthy obsession with "security" and does not want to recipient of the communication to ever be able to export messages in plain text.

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