Android just made a big change to your backups — and there's good news and bad news
- Google is adding more toggles to Android backups, so you can control exactly what gets backed up
- However, the company is also now counting everything in the backup towards your Google account storage
- This change is rolling out now, starting with new Google accounts
Android backups are changing in two small but significant ways starting from today (July 7) — and one of these changes will be more appreciated than the other.
Let's start with the good news: you can now take more granular control over what actually gets backed up, with individual on/off toggles being added for ‘SMS & MMS messages’, ‘Call history’, and ‘Device settings’.
So, you can choose whether you actually care about saving each of those things, so that you can restore them if you ever set up a new phone.
More control is nice, but presumably, the reason Googlehas made this change is that...
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