Google One: backup of SMS, MMS and contacts is available in France

However, you can choose to save them in full resolution on Google One. The space occupied by these elements will then be deducted from your storage envelope.

How to save your smartphone on Google One ?

The Google storage service now saves the contents of your smartphone for free. Here’s how to proceed.

Google announced a few days ago that its Google One storage service, which brings together the storage of all Google services, would allow users to save the content of their smartphone for free, even for users not having a paid account.

If the application is not yet available on iOS, Google One’s latest update has just landed on Android. In addition to saving the content of your device, it will allow you to review the elements unnecessarily occupying the storage of your Google Drive or Gmail to help you free up space.

1. Download Google One

If not already done, start by downloading the Google One application to your smartphone. Already available on Android, it should land very soon on iOS. This application serves as a control tower to manage the entire storage of Google services: Google Drive, Gmail, Google Photos.

If the application is already installed on your smartphone, make sure it is up to date. The following manipulation is carried out with Google One in version 1.73.324410959. This update is still being deployed and may not be available from all users.

2. Clean up on storage

If you are a bit short of storage, especially if you only use the 15 GB that a free account offers, you may want to do some cleaning before saving the contents of your smartphone.

The application incorporates a tool to effectively manage your storage space and release content by deleting the elements that unnecessarily occupy the allocated space.

To do this, open the application and place yourself on the tab Storage space. Then press the button Release the account storage space. The module will then suggest you delete the spam and the elements present in the gmail basket, or even empty Google Drive’s basket.

You can also review the bulky items received in email attachments or stored on your drive. Once these elements are cleaned, you will undoubtedly have recovered several GB of storage on your Google One account.

3. Save the contents of your device

Natively, your Android smartphone already knows how to save its content online on Google Drive. The option is in Settings Android, within the menu System Where is an option to Backup.

Then just activate the option Save on Google Drive. If it is automated, you can also choose to manually trigger the backup by pressing the suitable button. It will include data and applications, SMS, device settings, call history as well as contacts.

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For photos and videos, however, you will have to turn to Google Photos. If the service saves your content for free, it limits the resolution of your files. Photos greater than 16 megapixels and videos with resolution greater than 1080p will be automatically compressed to respect these limitations.

However, you can choose to save them in full resolution on Google One. The space occupied by these elements will then be deducted from your storage envelope.

To save your content via Google One, open the application and scroll the options displayed on the home page until you reach the section Save device data. Then press Configure data backup.

Saving Device data is in principle already activated. You can choose to include them Mms, But also, and above all, to save your Photos and videos In full resolution in Google One.

You can then monitor the available storage remaining from the storage space tab. It is also since this section that you can modify and manually activate the contents of your device content.

Google One: backup of SMS, MMS and contacts is available in France

Google has updated its Google One service to save data from Android smartphones in the cloud.

Google launched Google One over a year ago. This is a service to obtain more storage space on your Google account, but also to have the right to certain advantages.

The firm has published a new major version of the application, which now allows you to better manage the backup of its smartphone under Android.

MMS backup

From now on, the Google One application offers three elements to back up in the cloud: device data, MMS and photos and videos with Google Photos.

The first section in fact brings together many things, it is a question of saving the data from applications, call history, contacts, phone settings and SMS.

To this is now added the possibility of saving MMS, the messages sent by the mobile network and which may contain attachments.

Over the years backup under Android has improved, and it is increasingly easy to go from one smartphone to another without losing your data.

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