Back up or restore data on your Android device

You can back upwardly content, data, and settings from your telephone to your Google Account. You lot can restore your backed up data to the original phone or to some other Android phones. Y'all can't use back up when you lot set up a personal device with a piece of work profile or for work only, or when you set up a company-owned device.

Restoring data varies by phone and Android version. You can't restore a backup from a higher 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 telephone'southward screen lock PIN, pattern, or password is also used to encrypt your information and so it tin can exist backed up safely.

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

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

Back upwards content

  1. Dorsum up photos and videos. Larn how to automatically upload photos and videos to your Google Photos library.
  2. Back up files and folders. Larn how to dorsum upwardly files to Google Bulldoze.

Automatically back up your phone

Important:To help protect your backed-upward information, use a Pivot, blueprint, or password screen lock, instead of a swipe or Smart Lock.

You can gear up upwards your phone to automatically back upward your files.

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

Your Google One backup tin take up to 24 hours. When your data is saved, "On" will be beneath the data types you selected.

Add or switch backup accounts

Add a fill-in account

  1. Open your phone'south Settings app.

  2. Tap OrganisationAnd thenBackup. If these steps don't friction match your phone's settings, try searching your settings app for fill-in, or get help from your device manufacturer.

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

Switch between backup accounts

  1. Open up your phone'south Settings app.
  2. Tap SystemAnd 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 Fill-in business relationship.
  4. Tap the account that you want to employ for backups.

What gets backed up

Fill-in by Google Ane automatically saves information from your phone. Data saved with Backup past Google One includes:

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

Tip: Yous can automatically back upward your photos and videos to your Google Photos library. Larn how to dorsum up your photos.

Manually back up information & settings

  1. Open up your phone's Settings app.
  2. Tap Google And thenFill-in.
    If these steps don't lucifer your phone's settings, try searching your settings app for backup, or get assistance from your device manufacturer.
  3. Tap Back up now.

Erase after bankroll upwardly

Get your data onto a new phone

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

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

Your photos and videos are already available in Google Photos. Simply you can restore the balance of the data you backed upward while you set your new telephone for the first fourth dimension or after a factory reset. At setup, to restore your data, follow the on-screen steps.

The process tin can accept up to 24 hours.

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

See what photos, information, and settings you backed up

 You can check what data and which apps are included in your backup.

  1. Open your telephone'due south Settings app.
  2. Tap Google And thenBackup.
  3. Under "Backup details," review what data is backed upward on your device.

Restore backed-upwardly contacts

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

How Backup handles your data

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

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

  • Messages, 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 you and your account.
  • Crash logs and diagnostics are collected for analytics and troubleshooting purposes.

Plough backup off

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