In the ideal world, if you regularly back up a file on your Android phone, you can lose everything as with the last backup when your phone is lost, stolen or concrete.
But Google doesn’t play exactly that way. Back up two types of data from current photos and videos, and other device data.
The previous category is comprehensive but stored every Photos and videos from Google Photos apps to cloud are less clear and limited. Include portion Device setting, portion App data and text message records. What you can save on app data depends on the app. But the most not included is the file downloaded by Chrome.
Therefore, if you do not manually back up the download folder using Google Drive, the file may be lost if you need to back up in the cloud.
But there can be a change. Android authorities We’ve found a new option in the latest Google Play Services Beta, version 25.32.31, and users can toggle to back up files from the download folder.
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This option is not yet available to the public and is not yet clear because the Android Authority has not been tested. Is this specifically stored in the download folder? And, as suggested in the second screenshot, are they all files?
Nevertheless, it can be another small upgrade that allows you to use an Android phone to have a smoother experience. And it is not the only discovery of beta that can do that.
Android means business (card).
9TO5GOOGLE Some people who use August’s Android 16 QPR1 BETA 3.1 reported that they found an option to create a customized business card featuring the entire screen image that appears instead of the elector’s profile picture in the center of the reception call and the screen.
To be clear, you can customize the way your contacts appear on your phone when you call. It’s not a way to create a business card that appears on another phone when you call someone.
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Once available, you can access this function by opening a person’s contact page. The message “Attempting to add a phone card” is displayed here. Then you can choose an image from the camera, gallery or Google photo and finally choose the fonts and colors for the contact name.
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This article was originally in the sister publication. M3 It has been translated and adapted in Sweden.
