Support 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 phone or to some other Android phones. Y'all can't apply back up when y'all ready up a personal device with a piece of work contour or for work only, or when you ready a visitor-owned device.

Restoring information 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 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 as well used to encrypt your data so it tin be backed up safely.

Your fill-in data (except what y'all support to Google Photos) is erased if:

  • You don't employ 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. Acquire how to back up files to Google Bulldoze.

Automatically back up your phone

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

You tin can fix upwardly 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, turn on Backup past Google I and follow the on-screen instructions.
  3. Tap Back up at present.

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

Add or switch backup accounts

Add a fill-in business relationship

  1. Open your phone'due south Settings app.

  2. Tap OrganizationAnd thenBackup. If these steps don't lucifer 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 phone's PIN, pattern, or password.
  5. Sign in to the account that you want to add.

Switch between backup accounts

  1. Open up your phone'southward Settings app.
  2. Tap SystemAnd thenFill-in.If these steps don't lucifer your phone's settings, try searching your settings app for backup, or get assist from your device manufacturer.
  3. Tap Backup account.
  4. Tap the account that you want to apply for backups.

What gets backed up

Backup past Google One automatically saves data from your phone. This includes:

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

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

Manually dorsum upward data & settings

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

Erase after backing up

Get your data onto a new phone

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

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

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

The process can take upward to 24 hours.

Important: You lot tin can't restore a backup from a college Android version onto a phone running a lower Android version. Acquire how to bank check and update your Android version.

Run into what photos, information, and settings you backed up

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

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

Restore backed-upwards contacts

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

How Backup handles your data

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

Fill-in sends your data to Google's backup servers and helps yous transfer information between 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 collected equally part of your personal backup.
  • Personal identifiers are collected to ensure that your backups are associated with you and your business relationship.
  • Crash logs and diagnostics are collected for analytics and troubleshooting purposes.

Turn backup off

Was this helpful?

How tin we meliorate it?