Posts Tagged: backups
Wear OS teardown reveals that watch face, tile, and app data backups are on the horizon
One of Wear OS’s biggest issues is the lack of a proper backup feature which means every time you get a new smartwatch or phone you have to set everything up from scratch. Every single time. Reset the watch or phone? Reconnect from scratch. You get the picture. But it seems that Google is on […]
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WhatsApp’s online backups are getting end-to-end encryption
WhatsApp’s backups are now end-to-end encrypted in the cloud as Facebook rolls out a new update.
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iCloud outage takes down backups and photos for some users
If you’ve been having problems syncing data across your Apple devices, you’re not alone. Apple is reporting (via 9to5Mac) outages across several of its iCloud services, including backups, calendars, Find My, photos and even sign-ins. The company only…
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No more original quality Google Photos backups for the Pixel 4
A major selling point of previous Pixel phones was that they would come with unlimited original quality photo backup. That was actually a pretty big deal for enthusiast photographers, since they could safely store all of their high-resolution photos without worrying about running out of the measly 64GB of space on the Pixel phones or […]
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Google One brings full device backups to your Android phone
Android has always lagged a bit behind on full backup features next to its fruity counterpart, but Google’s made improvements to that in the last few years. Now they’re utilizing Google One’s cloud storage to make almost entire backups on your device automatically, which should cover just about everything. If you subscribe to Google One […]
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Google is finally testing manual backups with Android Pie
One feature that’s pretty much always been sorely missed on Android compared to iOS is the ability to make full, complete data backups on demand to ease transitioning in between devices. Apple offers stellar iCloud/iTunes backups, but the closest thing you’d get with that on Android would be on a rooted device utilizing recovery backups. And […]
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WhatsApp chat backups won’t count towards your Google Drive storage anymore
WhatsApp offers a nifty little feature that allows users to back up their chats and image storage to Google Drive, which is very useful when changing devices. Whether you’re upgrading or you’ve accidentally lost your phone, it’s nice to have a backup so you don’t lose everything with an old device. What makes this feature […]
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