How To Transfer Data To New Phone

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When it'south time to switch from your older Android phone to a new one, you'll want to make sure all of your information makes its way across safely. Thankfully, Google makes information technology extremely user-friendly to migrate your texts, call logs, contacts, music, and photos over to your new phone seamlessly.

How to back up data on your former Android phone

You'll need to make sure that all the relevant data on your old telephone is backed up to the cloud before y'all make the switch to your new phone. Google automatically backs up contacts, call logs, texts, and settings — including Practice Not Disturb details — to Google Drive, so you lot'll exist able to restore all that data to your new phone simply past logging in with your Google account during initial configuration.

Best of all, the data that's automatically backed up by Google doesn't count toward your 15GB free Drive storage quota, and so you don't have to worry about running out of storage. The feature backs up call history, app data, contacts, device and home screen settings, and text letters. So earlier you switch to a new telephone, it makes sense to see if this information is already on the cloud.

Notation: I'm using a OnePlus phone for reference, but the steps outlined below will exist the same for all the best Android phones running Android 7.0 Nougat and to a higher place. You tin always search for backup in the settings search bar to find the option.

Open up Settings from the app drawer or home screen.
Gyre downwardly to the lesser of the page.
Go to the System carte du jour.

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Tap Backup.
Brand sure the toggle for Back up to Google Bulldoze is fix to On.
Hit Back up now to sync the latest data on the phone with Google Bulldoze.

Pro tip: Go to contacts.google.com to see if all the contacts from your previous telephone migrated to your Google account. The contacts that y'all come across on this folio will exist the ones that show upwards on your new phone.

Once the data is backed upward, you can get started with setting up your new telephone. Before we do that, yet, permit's brand sure your photos and videos are being backed up to Google Photos.

How to transfer photos and videos to your new Android phone

Google Photos is an outstanding service for backing upwardly photos and videos. It seamlessly backs upward information, has granular sharing controls, and uses on-device machine learning to automatically group faces. You tin relieve your photos and videos at Original quality — the quality at which they were taken — or select Loftier quality, which retains the same level of item while cutting down on the size.

This is a good option to consider every bit Photos doesn't offer unlimited uploads anymore; once you lot run out of storage, you will take to buy a Google I plan. That said, it is the best way to dorsum up photos and videos from your Android phone. As the data is backed upwards to the cloud, y'all'll exist able to access your photos and videos from your new phone and on the web. If you haven't fix upward Photos still, hither'due south how to get started.

Open up Google Photos from the app drawer or domicile screen.
Select the hamburger menu (iii horizontal lines) from the summit left of the screen.
Tap Settings.

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Select Fill-in & sync.
Make certain the toggle for Back up & sync is gear up to On.
Ensure that the Backup mode is set to Loftier quality.

That'due south all at that place is to it. One time your photos and videos are safely backed upwardly to Google Photos, you lot tin can go started with setting up your new phone.

How to restore data and settings to your new Android phone

Y'all've unboxed your new phone and are gear up to gear up it upward. There are a few ways to restore information from your older device, and here I'm highlighting the option that has worked best for me over the years (I switch phones once every two weeks, so I know what I'm talking about).

Y'all'll demand your sometime telephone for this, so make sure you don't reset the data just yet. At this indicate, you should switch the SIM card over to the new telephone. Let'south go started.

Select your device language and hit Offset on the welcome page.
Select your home Wi-Fi network and sign in.
Hit Next at the Re-create apps & data screen to brainstorm migrating data from your one-time phone.

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At the Bring your data from ... page, select A backup from an Android telephone.
The next page offers instructions on how to restore data. Hit Side by side to start the data migration.
Hit Next once over again hither. I'll have detailed instructions on setting things upwards on your old phone downwards below.

You'll run across your phone's model number highlighted on the Verify your phone folio. Stay at this page and take hold of your old phone. Y'all'll at present need to authorize information transfer from your old phone so that texts, calls, and relevant data can migrate seamlessly to the new device. Here's what you lot demand to do on the erstwhile telephone:

Open up Settings from the app drawer or domicile screen.
Navigate to the Google tab.
Select Gear up & restore.

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Choose Prepare nearby device.
Hit Next at the Getting started page.
Your telephone will now search for nearby devices. You tin then verify the patterns and numbers on both devices and hit Next to proceed.

Hit Next to confirm the screen lock on your old phone.
Choose Copy at the Copy to your new device? page to copy data to your new phone.
You lot'll see a Copying your account progress bar at this point. Once you run across this, switch dorsum to your new phone.

You lot'll be able to see a sign-in window for all the Google accounts registered on your older device. Because you fix direct information transfer, y'all won't need to enter two-factor hallmark when signing in using this method. So don't fret if you do not encounter the two-cistron dialog box; that is normal beliefs. Should both phones lose connectivity at whatever signal during the restore, just start over.

Sign in to your Google business relationship.
Ostend the screen lock of your old telephone to authenticate the data transfer.
You'll now arrive at the Cull what to restore page. If you lot want everything from your old phone transferred to the new one, leave all the settings as is and select Restore.

If y'all don't want to install all the apps, choose the Apps setting.
Cull from the list all the apps y'all'd like to install on your phone.
Hit Restore to start installing data on your new telephone. You should run across a confirmation message of the same.

Afterward selecting the restore options, you'll exist able to choose whether to dorsum up information and use location automatically at the Google services page. After selecting the services, you tin fix a PIN to use face unlock and fingerprint authentication.

After configuring biometric authentication, the residuum of the options will vary by manufacturer, and you can hands follow along with the on-screen instructions. The all-time part with a cloud restore is that even your home screen is preserved. That includes the background and the app layout so that yous can get started on your new telephone without any additional setup.

That'due south all there is to it. In one case setup is finished and you get to the home screen, you'll see the Play Store running in the background and restoring data from your one-time phone. This can accept upward to an hour based on the amount of content installed on your old telephone and your net connection, so you tin permit that run while configuring the rest of the settings on your new phone.

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Harish Jonnalagadda is the Asia Editor at Android Primal. A reformed hardware modder, he now spends his time covering the Chinese and Indian handset markets. Contact him on Twitter at @chunkynerd.