Back up or restore data on your Android device

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

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

Where your phone data is stored

Backups are uploaded to Google servers and they're encrypted with your Google Business relationship password. For some information, your phone'due south screen lock Pivot, pattern, or password is besides used to encrypt your information so it can be backed up safely.

Your backup data (except what y'all back up to Google Photos) is erased if:

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

Support content

  1. Support photos and videos. Learn how to automatically upload photos and videos to your Google Photos library.
  2. Support files and folders. Learn how to back upward files to Google Bulldoze.

Automatically dorsum up your phone

Important:To help protect your backed-up data, use a Pivot, pattern, or password screen lock, instead of a swipe or Smart Lock.

Y'all can prepare upwardly your phone to automatically support your files.

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

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

Add or switch backup accounts

Add a backup account

  1. Open your phone'south Settings app.

  2. Tap SystemAnd thenFill-in. If these steps don't match your phone's settings, try searching your settings app for backup, or get assistance from your device manufacturer.

  3. Tap Backup account And thenAdd together account.
  4. If needed, enter your phone's 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 SystemAnd thenBackup.If these steps don't match your phone'south settings, try searching your settings app for fill-in, or get help from your device manufacturer.
  3. Tap Backup business relationship.
  4. Tap the account that yous want to use for backups.

What gets backed upward

Fill-in by Google One automatically saves data from your phone. This includes:

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

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

Manually dorsum up data & settings

  1. Open your phone's Settings app.
  2. Tap Google And thenBackup.
    If these steps don't match your telephone's settings, try searching your settings app for backup, or get assist from your device manufacturer.
  3. Tap Support at present.

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Get your data onto a new telephone

When you add your Google Account to a telephone that's been gear up, what you'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 help, get help from your device manufacturer.

Your photos and videos are already available in Google Photos. But y'all can restore the rest of the information you backed up while you gear up your new phone for the first time or later on a manufactory reset. At setup, to restore your data, follow the on-screen steps.

The process can take up to 24 hours.

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

Come across what photos, information, and settings you lot backed up

 Y'all tin can check what data and which apps are included in your fill-in.

  1. Open your phone's Settings app.
  2. Tap Google And thenFill-in.
  3. Under "Backup 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 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'southward fill-in servers and helps you lot transfer data betwixt devices. Backup collects certain information 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 nerveless equally part of your personal backup.
  • Personal identifiers are collected to ensure that your backups are associated with y'all and your account.
  • Crash logs and diagnostics are collected for analytics and troubleshooting purposes.

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