# Introducing Signal Secure Backups

DevFeed: [Introducing Signal Secure Backups](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/introducing-signal-secure-backups-1780.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://signal.org/blog/introducing-secure-backups/>)

Published: 2025-09-08T00:00:00Z

Content type: release

Language: en

Sources: [Signal Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/signal-blog.md>)

Topics: [Security](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/security.md>), [Android](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/android.md>), [zero-knowledge](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/zero-knowledge.md>), [iOS](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ios.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data.md>)

Tags: [android](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/android.md>), [ios](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ios.md>), [privacy](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/privacy.md>), [release](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/release.md>), [security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/security.md>), [storage](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/storage.md>), [zero-knowledge](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/zero-knowledge.md>)

## AI overview

Signal is introducing opt-in Secure Backups, initially in the latest Android beta, to let users restore encrypted message history after losing or damaging a phone. The feature is planned for iOS and Desktop, with free text-message and limited media backups plus a paid plan for extended media history.

## Source excerpt

In the past, if you broke or lost your phone, your Signal message history was gone. This has been a challenge for people whose most important conversations happen on Signal. Think family photos, sweet messages, important documents, or anything else you don't want to lose forever. This explains why the most common feature request has been backups; a way for people to get Signal messages back even if their phone is lost or damaged. After careful design and development, we are now starting to roll out secure backups, an opt-in feature. This first phase is available in the latest beta release for Android. This will let us further test this feature in a limited setting, before it rolls out to iOS and Desktop in the near future. Read more...