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Google One Now Offers Free Phone Backups Up to 15GB on Android and iOS

posted by martyb on Saturday August 01 2020, @07:41AM   Printer-friendly
from the free-as-in-beer dept.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:

Google One now offers free phone backups up to 15GB on Android and iOS – TechCrunch:

Google One, Google’s subscription program for buying additional storage and live support, is getting an update today that will bring free phone backups for Android and iOS devices to anybody who installs the app — even if they don’t have a paid membership. The catch: While the feature is free, the backups count against your free Google storage allowance of 15GB. If you need more you need — you guessed it — a Google One membership to buy more storage or delete data you no longer need. Paid memberships start at $1.99/month for 100GB.

Last year, paid members already got access to this feature on Android, which stores your texts, contacts, apps, photos and videos in Google’s cloud. The “free” backups are now available to Android users. iOS users will get access to it once the Google One app rolls out on iOS in the near future.

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  • (Score: 2) by Reziac on Sunday August 02 2020, @03:09AM

    by Reziac (2489) on Sunday August 02 2020, @03:09AM (#1030135) Homepage

    Yeah, I had same thought... oh boy, another 15GB of your data for Google to paw through!

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