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Public Signal Backups Testing
TL;DR You can test the new Signal Backups feature on Android on our staging servers. Grab the self-updating apk here! Hello, everyone! Many of you are aware that we’ve been working on a new end-to-end encrypted backup system for quite a while. Well, today, we’re finally ready to start testing it with external users 🙂 The new backup system fulfills so many of the things people have wanted for so long: Hosted by Signal, so your data is safe even if you made a local back...
Notably, at the top of that screen, there is a fun “ALPHA ONLY” section that lets you forcibly set your backup tier to be “Unset”, “Free”, or “Paid”. The other teams are hard at work implementing these changes, but alpha testing like this is much more difficult on iOS due to platform restrictions. greyson-signal: So for free tier, there’s no need to explicitly upload media, because we basically take advantage of the fact that attachments are downloadable for 45 days :
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