Taking example of Signal, I need to save each and every image manually to be me available outside its sandbox. Why is it like that rather than making it easy for me to use things that have been explicitly sent to me?
I have used another messaging app called Twin Me which also does something similar.
I always used WhatsApp earlier that allowed me access to the media downloaded in chats and let me take local backups but unfortunately they now allow only Google backups!
Suppose I want to keep a backup and decide later what I want to discard, I will have to keep on doing it manually each time to update the archive.
WhatsApp did it properly before where I could easily backup the whole directory which included all media and chat database locally. But now they are forcing Google backups which I do not like. I was looking for alternatives but they all seem to need this kind of manual saves. Eg. Signal, Twin Me, and the recently tried Jami.