Back up or restore data on your Android device

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

Restoring data varies by telephone and Android version. You can't restore a fill-in 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 Business relationship countersign. For some data, your phone's screen lock PIN, pattern, or password is besides used to encrypt your data so it tin exist backed up safely.

Your backup data (except what you dorsum upwardly to Google Photos) is erased if:

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

Back upward 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.

Plough on automatic backups

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

You can prepare your phone to automatically dorsum upwardly your files.

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

Your Google One backup can have upward to 24 hours. When your information is saved, "On" volition be below the data types you selected.

Add or switch fill-in accounts

Add a fill-in account

  1. Open up your phone's Settings app.

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

  3. Tap Backup account And thenAdd business relationship.
  4. If needed, enter your phone's PIN, blueprint, or password.
  5. Sign in to the account that you want to add.

Switch between backup accounts

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

Manually back upward data & settings

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

Erase after backing upwards

Become your data onto a new phone

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

To restore a backed-up account to a reset phone, follow the on-screen steps. For more help, visit your manufacturer'southward support site.

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

The procedure can take up to 24 hours.

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

See what photos, data, 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 information is backed up on your device.

Restore backed-upward contacts

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

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