This is a pretty weak update.
Fiddling with quite minor things, while breaking the ability to backup your device even more. Backup is a major black eye in the Android ecosystem for regular users.
Fiddling with quite minor things, while breaking the ability to backup your device even more. Backup is a major black eye in the Android ecosystem for regular users.
What's missing is better media management for third party apps like WhatsApp and Telegram so important photos and videos are backed up while unimportant ones are ignored and even discarded regularly. Every single family member's phone I've had to deal with has had this issue ("why is my phone out of storage when I barely have any apps installed?!" Meanwhile, WhatsApp is storing 20GB of funny videos).
Google contacts.
, passwords,
Google app passwords.
> wifi settings,
Because you can't not use Google's app for it.
> browser settings,
Google Chrome settings.
> photos,
Google photos.
> etc.
(As long as it's in a Google app.)
> it's astonishing how quickly you can set up a new phone by simply logging into your Google account.
After ten years or so of using Android I finally bit the bullet and enabled Google backups to transfer stuff to my new phone a few months back, and I was astonished at how fucking nothing gets backed up that isn't already in a Google cloud synced app. What's the point? Every single other app I had to manually figure out how to transfer and restore, because all Google doing is to "helpfully" prevent me from backing up my data for "security" reasons.
What's missing is alternate backup destinations. I'd like to see the option to backup applications to any cloud provider rather than specifically Google.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and...
The big problem is game data backup. The market has bluntly rejected Google's opt in system, and something needs to be done.
Users care far more about the stuff that isn't backed up in Android, not the stuff that is. And far too much backup is hidden behind opt-ins that regular users just skip during backup. It needs to be on by default and opt out.