{"id":265991,"date":"2026-06-03T10:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T14:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/03\/google-could-soon-give-you-more-control-over-android-backups\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T13:40:51","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T17:40:51","slug":"google-could-soon-give-you-more-control-over-android-backups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/03\/google-could-soon-give-you-more-control-over-android-backups\/","title":{"rendered":"Google could soon give you more control over Android backups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/google-android-backup-granular-data-controls-3673873\/\">Google could soon give you more control over Android backups<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/google-android-backup-granular-data-controls-3673873\/\">https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/google-android-backup-granular-data-controls-3673873\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-03 10:10:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.androidauthority.com\">www.androidauthority.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Edgar Cervantes \/ Android Authority<\/p>\n<p>TL;DR<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Google appears to be working on letting users choose which data to back up from their Android phones.<\/li>\n<li>It could add toggles to enable or disable individual data categories within backups.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Backing up your device is an extremely important part of being a responsible smartphone user. And if you\u2019ve been maintaining backups of your Android devices, you\u2019d know that not everything on your phone deserves to be backed up to the cloud. While Android doesn\u2019t currently give you a choice on that end, that might be changing soon.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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 &#038; app data all get backed up to the cloud, you could soon be able to toggle each category individually.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"e_Ph\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" sizes=\"calc(min(calc(100vw - 1.875rem), 51.25rem) \/ 2)\" title=\"android backup current ui image watermarked\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/android-backup-current-ui-image-watermarked.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/android-backup-current-ui-image-watermarked-29w-64h.jpg 29w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/android-backup-current-ui-image-watermarked-1000w-2200h.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/android-backup-current-ui-image-watermarked-655w-1440h.jpg 655w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/android-backup-current-ui-image-watermarked-491w-1080h.jpg 491w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/android-backup-current-ui-image-watermarked-393w-864h.jpg 393w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/android-backup-current-ui-image-watermarked-173w-380h.jpg 173w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/android-backup-current-ui-image-watermarked-545w-1200h.jpg 545w\" alt=\"android backup current ui image watermarked\" src=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/android-backup-current-ui-image-watermarked.jpg\"\/><span class=\"e_tk\">Current behavior<\/span><img class=\"e_Ph\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" sizes=\"calc(min(calc(100vw - 1.875rem), 51.25rem) \/ 2)\" title=\"android backups granular controls image 1 watermarked 2\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/android-backups-granular-controls-image-1-watermarked-2-scaled.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/android-backups-granular-controls-image-1-watermarked-2-29w-64h.jpg 29w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/android-backups-granular-controls-image-1-watermarked-2-1000w-2223h.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/android-backups-granular-controls-image-1-watermarked-2-648w-1440h.jpg 648w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/android-backups-granular-controls-image-1-watermarked-2-486w-1080h.jpg 486w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/android-backups-granular-controls-image-1-watermarked-2-389w-864h.jpg 389w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/android-backups-granular-controls-image-1-watermarked-2-171w-380h.jpg 171w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/android-backups-granular-controls-image-1-watermarked-2-540w-1200h.jpg 540w\" alt=\"android backups granular controls image 1 watermarked 2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/android-backups-granular-controls-image-1-watermarked-2-scaled.jpg\"\/><span class=\"e_tk\">Upcoming behavior<\/span><\/p>\n<p>You can choose to exclude anything that isn\u2019t really valuable, saving some of your Google One storage while also cutting down on the time and data the backup uses.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Don\u2019t want to miss the best from Android Authority?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img class=\"e_Ph\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" sizes=\"9.375rem\" title=\"google preferred source badge light@2x\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/google_preferred_source_badge_light@2x.png 676w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/google_preferred_source_badge_light@2x-64w-20h.png 64w\" alt=\"google preferred source badge light@2x\" src=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/google_preferred_source_badge_light@2x.png\"\/><img class=\"e_Ph\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" sizes=\"9.375rem\" title=\"google preferred source badge dark@2x\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/google_preferred_source_badge_dark@2x.png 676w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/google_preferred_source_badge_dark@2x-64w-20h.png 64w\" alt=\"google preferred source badge dark@2x\" src=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/google_preferred_source_badge_dark@2x.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>This could be extremely useful if you\u2019ve never really wanted to back up every single thing on your Android phone, but have had no other option short of disabling backups entirely.<\/p>\n<p>Disabling any category on the list will prompt you for confirmation. Once confirmed, it will not back up data specific to that category and will also delete its existing backed-up data from the cloud.<\/p>\n<p>Late last year, we also spotted that Google was working on letting users disable backups on a per-app basis. While that feature hasn\u2019t yet rolled out, this new development certainly hints at possible good news for users who don\u2019t want everything on their smartphones to be&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/google-android-backup-granular-data-controls-3673873\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google could soon give you more control over Android backups https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/google-android-backup-granular-data-controls-3673873\/ Publish Date: 2026-06-03 10:10:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":265992,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Backup-by-Google-one-settings-page-on-smartphone-Stock-photo-3.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[70],"class_list":["post-265991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-android","tag-google"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265991"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":265993,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265991\/revisions\/265993"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}