Instructions to use Google One to backup your Android smartphone automatically and for free

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Smartphone backup is always a smart action, backing up smartphones to the cloud is an even smarter action, because you can easily retrieve important data even if your smartphone is lost or severely damaged. .

Now, Google has officially provided a tool for Android smartphone users (and iOS) to backup data to the cloud, completely free and automatically. Just a personal Google account, you will get 15GB of free storage.

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Backup with Android

Of course, you don’t need Google One to backup app data, call history, contacts, settings and SMS messages. You can still do that easily using Android settings and Google Drive storage.

You can follow these steps (because Android smartphones may differ, so the steps may vary depending on whether you are using a Samsung, Xiaomi or Pixel smartphone):

– Go to Setup> System> Backup.

– Choose to activate “Back up to Google Drive”.

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– Below you can see the Google account the smartphone chooses to backup. Further below, you will see the latest backup period, you can choose Backup Now to back up immediately if the last time ago was quite long ago.

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If you want to backup photos and videos, you can use Google Photos:

– Find the Google Photos section, under Photos & videos in the settings.

– Enable the “Back up & sync”.

Backup with Google One

If you use Google One, you can also backup your smartphone data, call history, messages, photos and videos. In particular, Google One will retain the original quality of photos and videos, not compressed as Google Photos.

– First you need to download and install the Google Ones app, from the Play Store app store.

– After opening the application, you will see the homepage “Storage and more with Google One”. If this new feature does not yet support your smartphone, you will only see an upgrade request to a premium account. Please try again in a few days.

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– Click the Setup data backup button. Here you can choose which data to back up.

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After you have backed up your data with Google One, you can easily access these data via the app:

– Select the Storage tab, you will be informed how much free space remains, how much space has been used.

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– If you want to restore data, select Get backup and then select the data you want to restore.

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All data is stored in the cloud. So if you switch to a new smartphone, then simply install the Google One app, sign in to your Google account and restore all your old data.

Reference: Theverge

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