How to back up your Android phone

Breaking or losing your phone or tablet sucks. But what sucks even more is losing all the precious data on your device.

Be smart and make a back up copy of all your important information and files. With a backup, you can easily restore your data to a new device and be back up and running in no time.

Backing up the data on your Android phone or tablet is actually really easy to do. While there are many apps that you can download and install that will help back up your data, these are the easiest ones.

With Google

The simplest and easiest way to back up your Android device is through Google using the built-in Android Backup Service feature.

To turn it on, go to Settings > Backup & reset and make sure "Back up my data" is turned on. These are instructions for Google Nexus devices, but you can usually find the setting more or less in the same location within the Settings app depending on your specific device.

With Android Backup Service, the following settings will be saved into Google Drive for restoration later: Google Calendar, Wi-Fi networks and passwords, home screen wallpapers, Gmail, apps installed through Google Play, display settings, language and input settings, date & time, and third-party app settings and data.

Manual backup

If you don't trust the cloud to store your data, you can always back up your files the old-fashioned way: locally to your computer.

To transfer files like music, photos, videos, and documents to your computer, first connect your device to a computer either through a microUSB or USB Type-C cable (on newer devices). On Windows, your Android device will show up as an external drive and you just need to drag and drop the files you want to transfer from it to your computer's hard drive.

Mac users will need to download and install Android File Transfer for their Macs to recognize their Android device; it's also a drag-and-drop process to transfer files from Android to a Mac.

Conclusion: Data is sometimes more precious then why to take change take these steps                            to secure your data.