Situations in which you lose all of your precious memories and photos are very rare, although it can happen. In those cases, it’s extremely beneficial to have backups of all of your Google Photo ...

Automatic backups are essential for safeguarding your data from hardware failures, ransomware attacks, and accidental deletions. By setting up scheduled backups, you ensure files, applications, and ...

Google Photos on the web now lets you automatically backup images from your computer. It lets you select folders to back up and automatically uploads images from the folders when you visit the webpage ...

The Android backup system enables Android users to back up and restore data on their devices. There are several built-in ways to do this; you can use the Auto Backup for Apps, which sends your app ...

Losing my iPhone or having my iPhone stolen is a nightmare of mine. I hope it never happens. That's why I try to prepare for the eventuality of having all my data gone in an instant. I back up my ...

Between hard drive failures and malware, companies face major threats to their data. Considering the average cost of downtime is $1,410 per minute, businesses need protections in place to keep their ...

Chris Thomas was a reporter at Android Police from 2022 until 2025. Google is making it easier to keep the data on your phone safe from thieves, even after a reset. The September 2025 Google Play ...

Running out of storage on a smartphone is something most of us have experienced. You click a few photos, record some videos, install a handful of apps and suddenly ...

Google is working on a feature in the Photos app that will automatically back up newly created folders. The feature will appear as an on/off toggle in the Device folder settings. This feature was ...

One of the coolest things about Android 6.0 Marshmallow is that your app data automatically gets backed up to Google Drive. This means that when you switch devices, all the settings and login ...

Though Google Takeout doesn’t sound like software, actually, it is. It’s a special way of exporting your data from many Google apps. For instance, you can export notes and lists from Google Assistant ...

Google is making it easier to keep the data on your phone safe from thieves, even after a reset. The September 2025 Google Play Services update (v25.34) adds automatic backup and restore for Android’s ...