Backup Plan question
Hello guys!
After being AWOL from Signal for about a little longer than half a year, it seems I have returned to some very neat features announced. With Secure Backups, I feel like I have a little light at the end of the tunnel for a problem I created for myself.
In short, I am currently not able to link Android to Desktop with the chats from Android being reflected to Desktop after linking. From my understanding, this is intended, it's how Signal works. But with this new feature, if I backed up with the paid plan on Android, could I somehow retrieve this backup on Desktop?
From looking around, it seems that if you link with Android, what's supposed to happen is "all your chats and the last 45 days of media can be synchronized from your mobile phone the first time you set up the linked device", which sounds like the free plan. I did not get this option, I simply started "syncing", but there were no chats in the end (on Desktop), which might have to do with me re-linking and not "linking the first time".
Would the idea be that I pay for the 100GB plan, backup the data on the cloud, unlink Desktop, then link again to get the correct prompt? Again, all I want is my chats from Android to appear on Desktop.
Thanks in advance, this has been quite a day trying to juggle local backups that it has fried every iota of my brain