• disheveledWallaby@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    I don’t believe signal let’s you import any of your old messages to new device’s for security. When setting up a new device last time I saw a warning about this. It let’s you use the same account but without the older messages.

    You could try to copy your ~/.config/Signal folder to the same location on your new device but that might not work. Don’t know because I’ve never tried.

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      1 year ago

      Signal let’s you transfer devices and their history at least on phones.

      It might be different then restoring a backup, but you should be able to move to another device.

      If you want 2 devices on the same account, then yes, it won’t let you transfer the data, but both will get messages moving forward.