Google Account Backup & Restore for Android

There are many ways to backup and transfer your personal info from one phone to another but this is all about using what is built into ever Android phone. Do you use Google Autofill?

Just what I needed!😀

Unfortunately, like a lot of these "on-line" manuals, they assume all old phones are like theirs and have the same settings. My old phone does not have an "Accounts and Back-up" under settings

does it work with video game app??

I backed up to google but the new phone isnt showing the backup neatly as you have it.

How to recover my Google account pls help me sir

I don't see my Android 6.1 has all these options. What version was your Android?

I have no 'Accounts & Backup', only 'Accounts', and in there is NO 'Backup & Restore' option/entry within. So I guess this is NOT built into every Android phone but my be only on Samsung handsets as it seems that all the happy commenters below seem to use one, perhaps this vid should be renamed 'Google Account Backup & Restore for Samsung Android'

It's sad what has become normal in 2023. This is a tutorial on how to have a company Archive your whole life and sell that information

What if I signed in already and I'm at the home screen?

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Great video. I wanted to ask you if this method of backing up your android data to your google account, comprehends even the whatsapp data or not?
Or should we back up our whatsapp data separately by using the specific backup function into the app itself?
How much space does google give your for backing up whatsapp data for free into the google servers (google drive i guess?)?
Last question, is there any android 'itunes" type free software that permits you to do a full backup of the data on the pc and then possibily restore it on another android phone?
Thank you

I am trying this, but it keeps failing. I wonder why I'm unable to back it up? It tells me the reason is unknown.

What about Samsung notes transfer to a non Samsung Android phone?

How to pick the restore options even after setting up the phone. You only showed the option when you start the phone for the first time

once I back everything up can I saftly delete them off of my phone? or off my google gmail?

I cant find any option in my note 20 uktra about choose a backup to restore

Very well understandable 👍

OMG Thank you! this little walk through helped me cuz i really wanted to back up based off my google drive back up and not use smart switch. I had accidently deleted messeges recently lol and thankfully I got it them back. :D

Can't figure out how to get to backup without paying for it I have a s22 ultra?? Can you help because I'm trying to make sure I save everything before I switch to the s23 ultra

How do you restore a back up once the phone has been set up? I cannot locate the screen being shown.

It still very useful after 3 years :D . But if restored on a new galaxy phone, we still have another tool is smart switch, so which is tool prefered, which is better? Thanks.

So it looks like my new google is linked at Samsung but turned OFF but I wanna use it on a new S23. Can I have my old Note 10+ w/ different Google Acc on same Samsung Acc? Or do they have to be on same Samsung Cloud Like having multiple iPhone iPad on a single iCloud?

May I ask if whatapps back up would work well via google?

what about files and folders in a device?

what about email accounts configured in the email app. transferring from samsung galaxy to sony xperia.

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The time and efforts you had put into this work that is beyond excellence. Take my cordial thanks! You are really an efficient, organized and result-oriented man suprohack._ Thank you for all the extra hours and extra effort you had to put on for getting this job done. I appreciate every bit of your effort. Thank you for pulling this off so smoothly.

I don't have my old phone on my hand
How Can i get back all my old google photos in my new phone ?
please i need help

Whenever I reset I don't get the option from Google to restore my device, why

Literally lost everything on my phone because I was sleeping with it and usually I only use fingerprint but since it's new phone and I guess I picked pattern for backup and didn't know it.. so at 4 30 am I'm having full blown anxiety attack as I'm sure I lost all my business and personal stuff. I've done factory reset as my only option and now am doing restore which on Samsung it is still asking me for pattern for that restore file (can't remember obviously) so doing for Google now and selected when I originally transferred data from old phone I must have backed up first. If I get even most of my apps and even some of my pictures I'll be happy. Trying to be optimistic

I had a zte phone i lost it since 1 Month now i buy a Huawei phone . When i put whatsapp i cant have backup When i install new whatsapp can you help me please

because I was given the wrong info , can I still add on my contacts to my new phone ?

I did a restore my Android phone but I think I made a boo boo and instead of checking new phone I clicked old phone and so now I have a backup from my old LG phone and not my recent Nord phone. I can't find pictures or anything new. Did I lose them? I'm really disappointed cuz I had a lot of pictures and information saved. I don't know how to get all of it back.

Am on Google pixel l think its permanently gone l cant play anymore how do l fix it:(

Hi thanks for this. I already started using my phone a couple days ago. Do you think I should do a factory reset to prevent duplication of phone book? Also I have two Google accounts I was using is it possible to upload both backups without them overwriting each other?

I want these apps and to stop coming on my phone

Excellent Help Thanks a lot
1 quick question If i have backed up my android phone data to google drive & i del the files on my phone Would sync from my android device del the files on google cloud also ???? Pls Help

Thanks bro

I had a problem with this. When I logged in with my new phone it had a more updated version of software. Because of this it wouldn't allow my data to transfer. This is really frustrating because I can see all the data. It just wouldn't allow me to download it. ☹️

Backup not found problem

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I Hope I could See How To Restore My Cellphone App's.

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Thank you, my phone does not seem to be doing well and I was afraid that I would lose all of my information if it just dies, you have helped me know what to do now. :)

I did a factory reset on a pixel 4a and cannot figure out how to get all the backed up sms messages from google One. I made sure they were there.
Edit. I got it to work finally, no thanks to Google's cryptic menus and confusing options.

Thank you so much for your instructions. You are a life saver. I was able to backup and restore the files and data to my Samsung phone. My phone went Rouge this morning. I picked up my phone to check message, on its own,, the screen was downloading I don't know what. Then the screen was erasing data which resulted in a factory reset. My carrier ( V ) could not tell me what happened with my phone and refused to connect me with Tech Support. I was advised that I may not be able to recover my data. . I was on a chat session with my carrier from 12:46 am to 3:27 am this morning with no resolution. I was advised to go to Google to backup and reset my phone; the steps were incomplete, and the steps were not accurate. Thanks again.

Does this also recreate your screen layout, widget/icon arrangement, and wall paper identically? Or just data and files?