• Android backups currently support saving app data, but without per-app options. • Google now appears to be working on individual toggles, letting you back up or exclude specific apps. • The list sorts apps by data size, letting you prioritize your attention on the biggest data users.

By now, everyone using a smartphone should probably know that if they care at all about their personal data, they need to be backing it up somewhere off-device. Google already offers plenty of Android backup options, and we’ve recently been seeing those tools get even better, like with a smarter approach to backing up RAW photos. That trend continues today, as we uncover evidence for new, more granular controls for app backups.

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When you back up your Android phone with Google, that i

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