2 options: you either have to restore the ipad with a backup from your phone, or enable imessage in icloud.

You can export your Signal Desktop history using https://github.com/bepaald/signalbackup-tools

Do it before relinking. Also, copy Signal Desktop app directory and use signalbackup tools to extract the encryption key from the system keyring and record it somewhere.

Then relink, your conversations should not disappear, but there is a non-zero risk they will.

> i'm worried that if i do this, it will "sync" my blank ass empty ass chatless unsyncable iphone with my desktop, and erase all the chats i have in the desktop app

It may do that, sometimes it does and sometimes it doesn't. I think (although I'm not sure) it has to do with whether signal desktop recognizes the phone as being the "same account" (in a technical sense that means more than just the same number) as was linked previously.

There are unofficial 3rd party programs to convert your desktop history into a readable file. I might search for one of those. Keep in mind that it will have access to all your history so there is a privacy risk. Also if you do this, make sure you use a program and follow instructions that's been updated in the last few months. Signal changed how they store the key to the message database last summer, so if you don't do some extra steps now it won't work.

Then once you've confirmed you've exported your history in a readable format, try relinking and see what happens.

I don't want to overwhelm my iPhone/iPad/Mac storage with all these messages as I'm not sure if they'll end up being downloaded to my devices. Am I correct in thinking that with the 30 day limit for messages that they'll eventually go away? I don't access anything from iCloud website since I have Advanced Data Protection set.

Do you exchange (incoming and sending) 200 messages per day? Seems excessive to me, but pretty sure some people and politicians can match that.

Oh wow, I just checked and I’ve got over 2 million messages! How??

Try pressing “Sync Now”

Can’t wait to turn this on and see mine. I don’t delete anything ever lol

I’ll update this with the number

Oh wow. Was less than I recall.

167k since the end of 2019

Settings. Hit your name. iCloud.

Click messages enable use on this phone. It’ll eventually pop up a number like 729,829 syncing to iCloud

Use pushbullet.

Install Pushbullet in every Android phone and login with same Pushbullet account.

Install Pushbullet Desktop app and login.

All messages from different Android devices will come to your desktop as notification.

You need a SIM card in the device. It's tied to your carrier and activated through the carrier.

no but if you wanted too also you can Bluetooth the contacts as well

There is no way to do what you want with Google Messages.

I use it to this day

Not currently possible with Google Messages, I believe. Maybe there's some app that retroactively backup and pull updates from text messages, but most likely every conversation would still be separate even if you texted the same number across two different devices/numbers

Well the best way that I've found is "Pushbullet". An app that will sync your notifications across different devices like a PC and smartphones. So basically when you receive a message from one device the app will forward send a notification on the other devices from which you can actually reply. It works great for SMS even when the devices aren't connected to the same network. It also works for a lot of other apps like Messenger and Whatsapp, on the latter you can only reply on PC but not on another smartphone.

Yes you can. You'll be using a web app on one device. I use a. Samsung S21 Ultra which has a sim in it, and Microsoft Duo. I used the pair device fiction you'll find in the pull down menu. I can now send and receive on either device. The web interface ĺ looks like messages.

I have the same issue. I've tried different apps and the Google web app, but nothing is quite doing the trick yet. What I want is that when I open the messages app /SMS app on my two phones with a twin SIM (same number) the same messages should appear. Right now I'm using Google messages and messages received only appear on the device I was using at the time, even though both devices are on and connected all the time. That leads to message threads being broken up between two devices and basically unusable.

The web app is slow and doesn't have a search function, so it's not really viable as a main SMS app for a phone.

I had been backing up SMS with SMS Backup pro and restoring when I switch devices... which is not elegant, but at least I had messages on devices I was using. Now with RCS that solution doesn't work well, and I was locked out of RCS for a while.

It would be nice to have multi device support, and I am not even sure they have that as a requested feature.

Have you tried re-linking your pc?

I also have the same issue. It's the only deal breaker for me.

All of the messages currently on your device when you turn it on get backed up. If you have automatic deletion set up for say a year, any messages more than a year old get deleted from iCloud as well.

I thought this was obvious, and the intended design. It’s not iCloud messages backup. It’s iCloud messages sync. It syncs the content between devices so that they’re all the same.

“iCloud backup for text messages” and “Messages in iCloud” are two different features, btw. The latter is not a backup service.

The messages are retained in the actual iCloud backup option.

You are correct though, messages in iCloud is a sync solution.

This dude had to literally agree to the option saying his messages would be deleted.

Ignore the “iCloud isn’t really a backup” comment.

iCloud Backup from your iOS device is a backup and recovery solution.

Before i accidentally deleted all old messages or even used iCloud, they already synced between all my devices? So now im curious what icloud message backup/sync even does.

Preferences>Advanced>reset cache works for me to sync up slack on my iphone

You’re sure you’re logged in to the same account and workspace on both devices? I’ve always had synced instances between desktop, phone, and tablet without issue...

Idk if this is still relevant, but I had the same issue. I could fix it by checking the email addresses I used for the workspace and found out that I had used different email addresses for the same workspace. When I logged out on one device and then logged back in with the same email address I was using on the other device, it started working again.

Just wanted to let you know that youre not alone! Slack on my iPhone isn’t displaying the messages I just sent on my PC. Even after closing/opening…shutting phone off etc.