Re: transfer to a new smartphone

On Sun, 5 Jan 2025 14:18:14 +0100, Wendelin Uez wrote:

 
It's time to move to a new smartphone. I knwo when changing from one Android
smartphone to a newer one I can login to my Google account with the newer
smartphone and data are copied from backup to the new one.
 
Bit what exactly is copied? I have addtional apps installed having their own
data, f.e. WhatsApp, Firefox, Mail clients. Are these non-Google-apps and
their data also backuped and restored, or do I have to reinstall them
manually?

My Samsung phone was stolen last month, so I had to follow the
process you described on my new Pixel phone. I found that most of the
non-Google apps did get restored. I can't remember which ones I had
to download manually, but it was a small number. It wasn't a matter
of downloading only the apps in Google's Play Store, because I had no
apps on my old phone from any other source -- other than the Samsung
ones that came preinstalled on that phone, and I didn't care about
losing those.

YMMV, but for me getting everything re-established and setting all
the settings on my new phone took only an afternoon, much less than I
had feared. And because you'll still have access to the old phone,
you won't have to spend time racking your brain to remember what is
missing. :-)

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