oh my god the fact that signal does not provide ANY way to export or backup message history on ios is awful. you can move it to a new device, but right now i have to restore an old backup on my current device, so i've spent half an hour desperately screenshotting/saving stuff

i completely understand why signal want to make it difficult for you to make a copy of your message history, but in this case it meant i nearly lost like, all the precious photos my friends sent me from a thing we did together. i could always ask them to re-send me them, but 😭

when did ios firmware images become like 8GB and why does it take far longer to extract the image than to download it

why does it take more than half an hour to extract. this computer has an ssd and is basically not doing anything else. apple what are you doing

actually in the recovery process now. it's so cute how the progress bar displayed on the phone under the apple logo is synced with the progress bar displayed on the computer

not looking forward to how, after my phone has been restored, i will also have to wipe and set up my watch again, despite my watch being just fine. this one's entirely apple's fault. the apple watch is not a fully independent device, it's paired to the phone and mirrors its data.

the data on an apple watch doesn't belong to the watch, if that makes sense. everything stored on an apple watch is basically a temporary copy of data stored on the iphone it's paired to, and the iphone copy is authoritative. this is reasonable but like anything it has tradeoffs.

my phone restored and now it's “upgrading” (apple force you to upgrade the ios version when restoring so i guess it has to do some migration stuff) and… huh, my watch is also doing something??? did my phone do this? does that mean it re-paired or what???

‪hello from my restored iphone! incredibly, i was apparently wrong about the apple watch? perhaps apple must have changed how this works: it seems to have automatically re-paired synced the last two weeks of fitness data back to my phone. nothing lost. i'm impressed!‬

@hikari Apple Watch sync is very good these days. I swap them about once a year and they slowly went from “goodbye all fitness data” to “you’re missing the 15 minutes you had it off your wrist”

@saagar @hikari Is that a model thing or a watchOS version thing? At some point I’m going to have to replace my series 3, and I don’t want to lose my 6 year move streak

@h0m54r @hikari I would guess watchOS

@saagar @h0m54r my watch definitely didn't have these magical sync capabilities a year ago, they must have improved the os