Sync smartphone messages that were written before Signal-Desktop was installed

[DMW007]

First of all, I want to say that I really like the step to create a cross-platform desktop-app. Chatting on a computer/laptop is much more faster and comfortable than on a smartphone. Especially when you're working on such a device and there's no need to switch between smartphone and PC/laptop all the time. I already use this a lot on WhatsApp, but see some weakness in the interests of the company behind WA. Especially in privacy/security concerns.

Using a messenger across devices comfortably

So for me it's a big issue that Signal doesn't sync messages that were written or received before that desktop client was installed. This reduces the usefullness a lot, since you've to search on the smartphone for the conservation not displayed on the PC.

Can we sync the entire conversation on the PC or implement some kind of interface, that fetches older message from the phone? WhatsApp already have such a feature: Messages are stored on the smartphone and were fetched from the desktop client. If we do this on the local network and use a strong E2EE between smartphone and desktop client, I don't see a real negative impact on security. On the other side, we can benefit from accessing all the conversations from the PC.

[scottnonnenberg-signal]

Thanks for the suggestion! We're already tracking this here: #1651