diff --git a/lib/shared/redux/update-roles-and-permissions.js b/lib/shared/redux/deprecated-update-roles-and-permissions.js
rename from lib/shared/redux/update-roles-and-permissions.js
rename to lib/shared/redux/deprecated-update-roles-and-permissions.js
--- a/lib/shared/redux/update-roles-and-permissions.js
+++ b/lib/shared/redux/deprecated-update-roles-and-permissions.js
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 } from '../../types/thread-types.js';
 import type { RawThreadInfoWithMemberPermissions } from '../../types/minimally-encoded-thread-permissions-types.js';
 
-function updateRolesAndPermissions(
+function deprecatedUpdateRolesAndPermissions(
   threadStoreInfos: RawThreadInfos,
 ): RawThreadInfos {
   const decodedThreadStoreInfos: { [id: string]: LegacyRawThreadInfo } = {};
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
     const rawThreadInfo = threadStoreInfos[threadID];
 
     const decodedThreadInfo =
+      // $FlowIgnore: `rawThreadInfo` has member permissions at point of migration
       decodeMinimallyEncodedRawThreadInfo(rawThreadInfo);
 
     decodedThreadStoreInfos[threadID] = decodedThreadInfo;
@@ -39,10 +40,11 @@
     const encodedUpdatedThreadInfo =
       minimallyEncodeRawThreadInfo(updatedThreadInfo);
 
+    // $FlowIgnore: `rawThreadInfo` has member permissions at point of migration
     updatedThreadStoreInfos[threadID] = encodedUpdatedThreadInfo;
   }
 
   return updatedThreadStoreInfos;
 }
 
-export { updateRolesAndPermissions };
+export { deprecatedUpdateRolesAndPermissions };
diff --git a/native/redux/persist.js b/native/redux/persist.js
--- a/native/redux/persist.js
+++ b/native/redux/persist.js
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@
 import { highestLocalIDSelector } from 'lib/selectors/local-id-selectors.js';
 import { createUpdateDBOpsForThreadStoreThreadInfos } from 'lib/shared/redux/client-db-utils.js';
 import { legacyUpdateRolesAndPermissions } from 'lib/shared/redux/legacy-update-roles-and-permissions.js';
-import { updateRolesAndPermissions } from 'lib/shared/redux/update-roles-and-permissions.js';
+import { deprecatedUpdateRolesAndPermissions } from 'lib/shared/redux/deprecated-update-roles-and-permissions.js';
 import { inconsistencyResponsesToReports } from 'lib/shared/report-utils.js';
 import {
   getContainingThreadID,
@@ -1396,7 +1396,7 @@
 
     const dbOperations = createUpdateDBOpsForThreadStoreThreadInfos(
       clientDBThreadInfos,
-      updateRolesAndPermissions,
+      deprecatedUpdateRolesAndPermissions,
     );
 
     return {
diff --git a/web/redux/persist.js b/web/redux/persist.js
--- a/web/redux/persist.js
+++ b/web/redux/persist.js
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 import type { ClientDBThreadStoreOperation } from 'lib/ops/thread-store-ops.js';
 import { patchRawThreadInfoWithSpecialRole } from 'lib/permissions/special-roles.js';
 import { createUpdateDBOpsForThreadStoreThreadInfos } from 'lib/shared/redux/client-db-utils.js';
-import { updateRolesAndPermissions } from 'lib/shared/redux/update-roles-and-permissions.js';
+import { deprecatedUpdateRolesAndPermissions } from 'lib/shared/redux/deprecated-update-roles-and-permissions.js';
 import { keyserverStoreTransform } from 'lib/shared/transforms/keyserver-store-transform.js';
 import { messageStoreMessagesBlocklistTransform } from 'lib/shared/transforms/message-store-transform.js';
 import { defaultAlertInfos } from 'lib/types/alert-types.js';
@@ -591,7 +591,7 @@
 
     const dbOperations = createUpdateDBOpsForThreadStoreThreadInfos(
       clientDBThreadInfos,
-      updateRolesAndPermissions,
+      deprecatedUpdateRolesAndPermissions,
     );
 
     return {