Signal Introduces Free And Paid Backup Plans For Your Chats

Privacy-focused messaging app Signal announced connected Monday that it’s introducing a characteristic that allows users to backmost up their matter conversations for free, on pinch nan past 45 days of media. It’s besides debuting its first paid characteristic by offering afloat media backups pinch up to 100GB of storage.

Historically, nan messaging app didn’t fto users shop immoderate benignant of backup of your conversations connected nan platform. This could beryllium particularly troublesome if you mislaid aliases collapsed your phone. While you could transportation conversations from 1 telephone to another, location was nary unreality backup successful place. The caller characteristic yet solves that problem, making Signal a much valuable app for unafraid messaging.

Signal’s free tier gives users 100MB of retention for matter messages and nan past 45 days’ worthy of media. The institution said successful its blog station that it stores messages aft compressing them, and 100MB would beryllium capable for “even heavy” users.

For users who want to shop beyond nan past 45 days of media, nan institution is offering a $1.99 per period paid scheme pinch 100GB of storage.

This is Signal’s first paid feature, and nan institution said it’s charging users to assistance pinch nan costs of retention successful a privacy-preserving way.

You tin alteration nan unafraid backup characteristic from nan app’s Settings, which will past statesman to backmost up your contented daily.

Signal is utilizing zero-knowledge exertion to unafraid its backups, truthful they’re not linked to a peculiar personification aliases a circumstantial costs method. Users will person a 64-character betterment cardinal that is generated connected nan instrumentality to unlock their backups. Amid Signal rivals, WhatsApp offers end-to-end backup done an optional characteristic that users person to enable.

At launch, Signal is offering this characteristic only connected nan beta type of its Android app, but said that cross-platform readiness is coming soon. It noted that, successful nan future, it plans to fto users prevention a backup archive wherever they want. Plus, it intends to alteration users to transportation their connection history betwixt platforms.