Android: activate automatic backup - how it works
How to enable Android's automatic backup can help protect your photos and videos from loss. We'll show you how it's done.
This is how automatic backup works
Thanks to the automatic backup of Android, your photos and videos, including screenshots or downloaded images, are saved in Google+. These are not published, but only saved online.
- Advantage: If your smartphone is ever lost, you can restore your pictures and videos automatically.
- In addition, you automatically have access from your PC. This means that you no longer have to download the photos and videos from your smartphone to your computer, but can access the backed up photos.
How to enable automatic backup
- Open the Google Photos app on your Android device.
- Then click on the three dots at the top right of the app and select "Settings".
- Under the first sub-item "Automatic backup" you will find the settings for this function. Select this point.
- Now flip the switch in the top bar so that the function is set to "On".
- The "automatic backup" is now activated. In addition, you can now make settings for this: For example, you can set that photos and videos are only uploaded when connected to Wi-Fi or only when loading. This saves data volume and battery.
