Incidentally, Signal works the same way on an Apple device. No backup. Lose your phone, and your entire chat history is GONE, together with all the media.
Apparently the authors of Signal consider backup to be less important than all the idiotic "story time" features and similar doodads.
I'm so much with you on this. I love Signal, but I'll never recommend it until it gets backup/restore. I have no clue why this is not prioritized over everything else.
Apparently the authors of Signal consider backup to be less important than all the idiotic "story time" features and similar doodads.