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diff --git a/docs/USERGUIDE.md b/docs/USERGUIDE.md index 4c5c61e..3047b3f 100644 --- a/docs/USERGUIDE.md +++ b/docs/USERGUIDE.md @@ -385,7 +385,7 @@ that matters to you. ### Backing up your phone On the Android application, **Phone → Android Sync** in the side menu backs up -your phone's photos and contacts to a group. +your phone's photos, contacts and text messages to a group. **Where backups go** is chosen once, at the top of the page, for every kind: @@ -430,6 +430,18 @@ your phone's photos and contacts to a group. - It runs on any connection, since a copy is small. **Back up now** sends one at once if your contacts changed since the last copy. +#### Text messages + +- **Turn on** asks for access to your text messages. The first copy holds them + all; then, once a day, a new file holds only the ones that arrived or were + sent since. +- The files go by year (`alice-messages/2026/sms-2026-10-10-0900.xml`), in the + XML format SMS backup applications can restore onto a phone. Senders are + named when contacts backup is also allowed. Multimedia messages (MMS) are + not included. +- The version of the application from the Play Store has no text messages + backup: Play allows reading them only to the phone's messaging application. + If a backup cannot go on (the node's disk is full, the folder no longer accepts files, somebody else joined the group), it stops, says why once in a notification and on the Android Sync page, and tries again the next day. |