Getting a new phone for the holidays doesn’t mean giving up Signal message history. Restore old messages on a new phone using Signal Secure Backups or device-to-device transfer.
https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/10074659364122-Backups-and-Device-Transfers-on-Signal
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