Google has started emailing Android users about its upcoming backup storage policy change that takes effect in 45 days.

Google is testing a free Quick Share automatic PC backup feature for Android, but it might not support Samsung phones. Here's probably why!

Google's got a powerful new option for expanding your automated Android backups — but it's up to you to find it and opt ...

Android is adding granular switches for message and device backups while testing automatic Documents uploads to Google Drive, giving users more control over what gets saved and what consumes their ...

As of July 7, all of the data included in your Android backups count toward your Google storage cap, but you can choose what ...

An amended Google One storage utilization policy is rolling out now to include your Android device settings in backups, but ...

Google says the typical Android backup is small enough that most users won't notice a meaningful change in their available storage.

Karandeep Singh Oberoi is a Durham College Journalism and Mass Media graduate who joined the Android Police team in April 2024, after serving as a full-time News Writer at Canadian publication ...

Google updated its Android backup policy, expanding the type of data counted toward the free 15GB Google account storage limit. Earlier, only photos, videos and multimedia files contributed to storage ...

Fortunately, it shouldn't take too much extra space.

They now count against your storage limit ...