Well I installed Signal on my new phone and lost all my old texts. Yes I had a backup, but no I don’t have the 30 digit restore code, that I ranted about before, because I was never shown it. I still can look at my old messages on my old phone…as long as I have it and it works. Of course the first thing I did was create a backup AND copy the 30 digit backup code. As I said before, even if I wasn’t previously told that 30 random numbers were a code, just by the sheer fact that they were displayed immediately after a backup I would have saved them to my password safe, thinking “I don’t know what these are but they look important”.