[joshjob42]

Only on Android, not iOS.

[cherryteastain]

It's not Signal's fault that Apple does not let you access the most basic feature of an operating system - the filesystem.

[joshjob42]

They do and have done for years now. There’s been a files app since 2017. They’ve had Advanced Data Protection available for iOS backups since 2022. Signal has just been lazy and found maintaining the Android backups to be a pain, so they refused to implement it for iOS.

[ls612]

Can Signal on iOS not save in the Files app like any other app that uses documents?

[nar001]

They did support it since they released the Files app, as Signal shows. Nothing changed all these years, yet they're now rolling out backups for iOS too, so the technology is already there.