I’m glad to see this is a concern of someone else. I commented about customizable backups in another thread and it got a rather different response than what I’d expected.

My thought was that I’d like to be able to backup messages year by year and leave Signal to maintain the current year’s backup and disregard anything older. This way the backup file on the device would only take a few gigabytes instead of a few dozen. I had to stop sending media through Signal a while back just to keep the backup file from ballooning out of control, opting to send gallery links instead.

I suppose this could also be done by conversation thread, but having any level of control would be fine. As it is, backing up every conversation every day is a bit redundant. I’ve occasionally noticed a backup running when there was nothing new since the previous day’s backup. Options would be nice.

Last time I tried Simplex, the battery drain was unbelievable. Maybe I’ll give it another go and see what happens, but I’m not optimistic.