Signal introduces free and paid backup plans for your chats

Signal announced secure, zero-knowledge cloud backups: a free tier stores compressed text messages and the last 45 days of media (100MB), while a paid $1.99/month plan provides 100GB for full media backups; users enable the feature in Settings, receive a device-generated 64-character recovery key, and daily backups run in the background—launching on Android beta first with cross-platform availability and more flexible archive destinations planned.