Back upward or restore data on your Android device

You can back up content, data, and settings from your phone to your Google Account. You can restore your backed up information to the original phone or to another Android phones. You lot can't use back up when you gear up a personal device with a work profile or for work simply, or when you set upwardly a company-owned device.

Restoring data varies past phone and Android version. You can't restore a backup from a college Android version onto a phone running a lower Android version.

Where your phone data is stored

Backups are uploaded to Google servers and they're encrypted with your Google Account password. For some data, your phone's screen lock PIN, design, or password is too used to encrypt your information and then it can exist backed up safely.

Your backup data (except what you lot back up to Google Photos) is erased if:

  • You don't use your device for 57 days
  • You plough off Android fill-in

Back 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 back up files to Google Bulldoze.

Automatically back up your telephone

Important:To assist protect your backed-up data, utilize a PIN, pattern, or password screen lock, instead of a swipe or Smart Lock.

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

  1. Open your phone's Settings app.
  2. Select Google And then Backup.
    Optional: If this is your first time, plow on Backup by Google One and follow the on-screen instructions.
  3. Tap Support now.

Your Google One fill-in tin take upwardly to 24 hours. When your data is saved, "On" will be below the information types you selected.

Add or switch backup accounts

Add a backup account

  1. Open your phone's Settings app.

  2. Tap ArrangementAnd thenBackup. If these steps don't match your telephone's settings, effort searching your settings app for backup, or become help from your device manufacturer.

  3. Tap Fill-in account And thenAdd together account.
  4. If needed, enter your phone'south Pin, pattern, or password.
  5. Sign in to the account that you want to add.

Switch between backup accounts

  1. Open your phone'southward Settings app.
  2. Tap OrganizationAnd thenBackup.If these steps don't lucifer your phone's settings, endeavour searching your settings app for fill-in, or get aid from your device manufacturer.
  3. Tap Backup business relationship.
  4. Tap the account that you want to use for backups.

What gets backed upwards

Fill-in by Google One automatically saves data from your phone. Data saved with Backup by Google 1 includes:

  • App data
  • Telephone call history
  • Contacts
  • Settings
  • SMS messages
  • Pictures and videos
  • MMS messages

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

Manually back upward data & settings

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

Erase afterwards backing up

Get your data onto a new phone

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

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

Your photos and videos are already available in Google Photos. Merely you can restore the balance of the data you backed up while you ready your new phone for the first fourth dimension or after a manufactory reset. At setup, to restore your information, follow the on-screen steps.

The procedure tin have upwards to 24 hours.

Important: You can't restore a backup from a higher Android version onto a phone running a lower Android version. Learn how to check and update your Android version.

Run across what photos, data, and settings you backed upwardly

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

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

Restore backed-up contacts

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

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