GoKawiilEdgar Cervantes / Android Authority
TL;DR Google appears to be working on letting users choose which data to back up from their Android phones.
It could add toggles to enable or disable individual data categories within backups.
Backing up your device is an extremely important part of being a responsible smartphone user. And if you’ve been maintaining backups of your Android devices, you’d know that not everything on your phone deserves to be backed up to the cloud. While Android doesn’t currently give you a choice on that end, that might be changing soon.
We were able to take a peek at a new feature in the latest v26.22.30 beta version of Google Play Services that hints at a much better future for anyone who frequently backs up their Android phones.
It seems Google is working on giving users more granular control over the data that gets backed up from their devices. Unlike the current situation, where your call logs, messages, device settings, and apps & app data all get backed up to the cloud, you could soon be able to toggle each category individually.
Current behavior Upcoming behavior
You can choose to exclude anything that isn’t really valuable, saving some of your Google One storage while also cutting down on the time and data the backup uses.
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