Back up or restore data on your Android device

You can support content, information, and settings from your phone to your Google Business relationship. You can restore your backed up information to the original phone or to some other Android phones. You can't utilise dorsum up when you fix a personal device with a piece of work contour or for work only, or when you fix up a company-endemic device.

Restoring data varies by phone and Android version. You tin't restore a backup from a higher Android version onto a telephone running a lower Android version.

Where your phone information is stored

Backups are uploaded to Google servers and they're encrypted with your Google Account countersign. For some data, your telephone's screen lock Pin, pattern, or countersign is also used to encrypt your data so it can exist backed up safely.

Your backup information (except what yous support to Google Photos) is erased if:

  • You lot don't utilize your device for 57 days
  • You lot plough off Android backup

Dorsum up content

  1. Support photos and videos. Learn how to automatically upload photos and videos to your Google Photos library.
  2. Support files and folders. Acquire how to support files to Google Drive.

Automatically back upwardly your phone

Important:To help protect your backed-up information, employ a PIN, design, or password screen lock, instead of a swipe or Smart Lock.

You can set up up your phone to automatically back up your files.

  1. Open up your telephone's Settings app.
  2. Select Google And then Backup.
    Optional: If this is your first fourth dimension, plow on Fill-in by Google One and follow the on-screen instructions.
  3. Tap Back up now.

Your Google One backup can take upwardly to 24 hours. When your data is saved, "On" volition exist below the information types you selected.

Add or switch fill-in accounts

Add a backup business relationship

  1. Open your phone'south Settings app.

  2. Tap SystemAnd thenBackup. If these steps don't lucifer your phone's settings, try searching your settings app for backup, or get help from your device manufacturer.

  3. Tap Backup account And thenAdd account.
  4. If needed, enter your phone'south PIN, pattern, or countersign.
  5. Sign in to the account that you desire to add.

Switch between backup accounts

  1. Open up your phone'due south Settings app.
  2. Tap ArrangementAnd thenBackup.If these steps don't match your telephone'southward settings, endeavour searching your settings app for backup, or get help from your device manufacturer.
  3. Tap Fill-in account.
  4. Tap the account that you want to use for backups.

What gets backed up

Backup by Google 1 automatically saves information from your phone. This includes:

  • App data
  • Call history
  • Contacts
  • Settings
  • SMS letters
  • Pictures and videos
  • MMS letters

Tip: You can automatically support your photos and videos to your Google Photos library. Learn how to back up your photos.

Manually back upward information & settings

  1. Open your phone's Settings app.
  2. Tap Google And thenBackup.
    If these steps don't match your phone's settings, try searching your settings app for backup, or get help from your device manufacturer.
  3. Tap Dorsum up now.

Erase after backing up

Get your data onto a new phone

When you lot add your Google Account to a telephone that'south been set up, what you'd previously backed up for that Google Business relationship gets put onto the phone.

To restore a backed-up account to a reset phone, follow the on-screen steps. For more assist, get help from your device manufacturer.

Your photos and videos are already available in Google Photos. Just you tin restore the rest of the data you backed upwards while yous set up your new telephone for the first time or after a factory reset. At setup, to restore your information, follow the on-screen steps.

The process can take upwardly to 24 hours.

Important: Y'all tin't restore a backup from a higher Android version onto a telephone running a lower Android version. Learn how to check and update your Android version.

Run across what photos, data, and settings y'all backed up

 You can check what information and which apps are included in your fill-in.

  1. Open your phone's Settings app.
  2. Tap Google And thenBackup.
  3. Under "Fill-in details," review what data is backed up on your device.

Restore backed-up contacts

If you've saved your contacts to your Google Business relationship, they'll sync automatically. If you accept other contacts on a phone or SIM card, learn how to manually restore contacts.

How Backup handles your data

Important: The data that backup collects is encrypted in transit.

Backup sends your information to Google's backup servers and helps you lot transfer data between devices. Backup collects certain information to perform services on your device. Some of this functionality uses Google Play services. For case, backup collects:

  • Letters, contacts, app settings, and preferences are collected as part of your personal backup.
  • Personal identifiers are collected to ensure that your backups are associated with yous and your account.
  • Crash logs and diagnostics are collected for analytics and troubleshooting purposes.

Turn backup off

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