Back up or restore data on your Android device

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

Restoring data varies by phone and Android version. You lot can't restore a fill-in from a higher Android version onto a phone running a lower Android version.

Where your telephone data is stored

Backups are uploaded to Google servers and they're encrypted with your Google Business relationship password. For some data, your phone's screen lock Pin, pattern, or password is also used to encrypt your data and so it can be backed upwards safely.

Your fill-in data (except what you dorsum upwards to Google Photos) is erased if:

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

Support content

  1. Back up photos and videos. Learn how to automatically upload photos and videos to your Google Photos library.
  2. Back up files and folders. Larn how to support files to Google Drive.

Automatically back up your phone

Important:To help protect your backed-upwards data, use a PIN, pattern, or countersign screen lock, instead of a swipe or Smart Lock.

You can ready up your phone to automatically support your files.

  1. Open your phone's Settings app.
  2. Select Google And then Fill-in.
    Optional: If this is your first time, turn on Fill-in by Google I and follow the on-screen instructions.
  3. Tap Back up now.

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

Add or switch backup accounts

Add a backup account

  1. Open your phone's Settings app.

  2. Tap OrganisationAnd thenBackup. If these steps don't match your telephone's settings, try searching your settings app for fill-in, or become assist from your device manufacturer.

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

Switch between backup accounts

  1. Open your phone'due south Settings app.
  2. Tap SystemAnd thenBackup.If these steps don't lucifer your telephone'south settings, try searching your settings app for backup, or become aid from your device manufacturer.
  3. Tap Backup account.
  4. Tap the business relationship that you lot want to apply for backups.

What gets backed up

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

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

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

Manually support data & settings

  1. Open your phone'southward Settings app.
  2. Tap Google And thenBackup.
    If these steps don't friction match your phone'due south settings, attempt searching your settings app for backup, or get help from your device manufacturer.
  3. Tap Dorsum upwardly now.

Erase after bankroll up

Go your data onto a new phone

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

To restore a backed-upwardly account to a reset telephone, follow the on-screen steps. For more help, get aid from your device manufacturer.

Your photos and videos are already available in Google Photos. But you can restore the residue of the data you lot backed up while you set your new telephone for the starting time time or after a factory reset. At setup, to restore your information, follow the on-screen steps.

The process can take up to 24 hours.

Of import: You can't restore a fill-in from a higher Android version onto a telephone running a lower Android version. Learn how to bank check and update your Android version.

See what photos, data, and settings y'all backed up

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

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

Restore backed-up contacts

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

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