**Setting Up Autofill on Android**

But that was the only thing that didn't transfer over now even though all of our applications did come over it's a little bit hard to find them so make sure you go into the settings here and sort and I like to sort by alphabetical order so I can actually find things. So, let's take a look at how to access these saved information.

When you go into these applications they are not signed in to any account yet it didn't automatically pull over that information for security reasons. For example, if we go into an application and we want to log in, like on Reddit, I log in but I can't remember my username or password so I've already signed in to read it on Google Chrome on my computer and I want to have that information here without me having to re-type everything. So, this is how you are able to go about doing that without having to type in all your accounts and passwords again.

So, if we go into the settings of the phone and then we're going to go down to general management and then language and input, down here you have what is called autofill service. This is the service that is on Android that will automatically fill in your username and passwords that are allowed to be saved to Google. Right now, it's set to Samsung Pass by default, but I'm going to choose Google and then here it's asking if we trust this application, so I select okay.

So, now if I click the Settings here, it's actually going to tell me a little bit more about autofill with Google. With a single tap, you'll fill in passwords, addresses, credit cards, and other information from your Google account. Here you can choose what account that's going to be from. So, that's the correct account. Because this does link through Chrome sync, you will need to add a passphrase if you have that enabled so that it can access all that information.

Now that we've added our information here, we can go in and see all the information it knows and understand how it works. If I want to adjust my address or anything, I can come in here and do that. And then I also have the option down here for passwords, so if I open this up, it's going to show me my password manager, and then I can see all the different applications that know my password and have them saved.

So, here if we tap on one of these, we could edit the safe passwords but you do need to have a lock screen setup on your phone to be able to access those settings. Now that we have Google autofill enabled, let's go back to Reddit and sign in so now when I tap on the name, I can select autofill and here we can see my username and it's automatically pulling in from Google.

So, I'm going to choose that it automatically enter that information and then I can select login and now I have logged into that application without typing out anything. This is something that now when I set up my phone I can go through and add all that information, and if there's an app you haven't added that information to it most likely will ask to save that info so the next time you do this it's really easy to log back into your account.

**Backing Up Information with Google**

Now if you also want to have access to all those passwords and information at while you were browsing the internet, make sure you go into the Google Chrome application and then you will want to go in here into the settings. And then here you need to sign into the same account that's connected to your Android phone.

And then here we can use the passphrase and sync all of our Google passwords and autofill information into Google Chrome as well. So, here it is showing you what is going to back up so it's going to sink our chrome data. And here we could manage all of that information so that is how you backup everything to your Google account.

And then I'm using the Galaxy Note 10 this could be done with any other Android phone as well. So, if you don't have all your stuff backed up to Google or you just want to do a copy from your old phone to your new phone, I definitely recommend checking out Samsung Smart Switch as it will pretty much copy everything over wirelessly from phone to phone without a Wi-Fi connection and then you can have all of your information here.

One of the other benefits of that is it will actually backup your home screen so exactly how you had your phone laid out that will show up on the new phone. I really wish Google would add that to this backup service but if you want to see how to do that make sure you check out the video right here on the side I explained exactly how that's done and how you can get everything copy it over.

**Smart Switch and Android**

If you have any further questions about this process please let me know in the comments below. And if you want to see that video all about Smart Switch make sure you select the playlist at the bottom of this page.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: entoday I'm going to show you how to properly backup your Google Account on your existing Android phone so that when you transfer to a new phone now or later in the future everything is ready to go as soon as you sign into your Google account let's get started everybody welcome to tech with Bret where I help tech work for you now as a Android fan I love how my contacts and calendar and everything is completely backed up on my Google account so that when I transfer to a new phone pretty much everything is there now today I will show you the proper way to make sure that everything is backed up so you're not missing any info when you go to your new phone as well as if you are missing info how to properly get that transferred over as well so the first thing that we need to do is make sure that we have a Google account on our phone so today I'm using the Samsung Galaxy Note 9 but this will work on any other Android phone as well so we're gonna do that by going into the settings of the phone I like to pull down the notification shade and press the settings right here so once we get to this menu I'm gonna scroll down and find an option that says account and backup so if I open this I have a few different options so there you can see all the accounts that are added to your phone but I'm actually going to go to the backup and restore portion so under this option because this is a samsung phone I do have a Samsung Account backup so you can back up your information that way that actually offers a lot of cool features but today we're just talking about the Google account right here so here you can see that my backup data is turned on so everything is being backed up here under backup account you can see my email address and if you don't have that info right there you could click and tap to add the email address you want to have everything backed up to and then down here we can actually go into Google account settings so this is going to show you a little bit more about what is backed up so right here it's saying backed up to Google Drive and if we click on the little question mark here it's going to tell us a little bit more about what is actually backed up so here you can read through all of this but it's mainly going to backup photos and videos automatically but if you want files and folders backed up you do need to manually do that from Google Drive so let's go back here so right now because I'm going to do the transfer I'm going to select backup now just to make sure everything is backed up here we can see it's backing up to my account and then here it shows what kind of information is being backed up so I have certain applications that are being backed up so it's going to load all those apps that have info that's being backed up to my Google account and that could be settings or other data that I've given permission to my Google account to store so here we have call history here we have contacts here we have device settings so this is certain things like the wallpaper Wi-Fi password and default applications on the phone so next we have photos and videos so if we open this up it's going to show us all the settings that are selected and right here we have backup and synced enabled now if you don't have that I highly recommend turning that on and make sure that the upload size says high quality this means it's going to upload an unlimited amount of storage without ever having to pay anything so it's going to load those at a very high quality you're not going to notice the difference between what you take on your phone and what is actually backed up and then if you want to make sure everything is backed up on your phone including all the other photo albums you may have select this backup device folders and then you go in here and you turn all of those on so I don't know if I want all of that information right now it's kind of a lot of stuff so we're just going to keep it with the normal backup of my gallery right now and then the last option here is SMS text messages so this backup will include sent and receive messages this does not include MMS media so no picture messages so as of right now I've actually never seen that work so I highly recommend checking out Smart Switch to be able to backup all of your text messages from your old phone to your new device so now that that looks good here you can see that it's still backing up some of the information right at the top of the screen so let's wait a minute until that's backed up and you can also see that bar right here in the notification panel indicating that the backup is still in progress okay the backup has now finished so we're going to go back and then the last option here is you have automatic restore so that means once you add your Google account to the new phone it's automatically going to restore that info so if you tap on this it's going to turn that off and then it turn it back on now before we go to the new phone if you're going to continue using your phone let's make sure that from now on if you're taking pictures or adding new contacts all that information is backed up so that as soon as you get the new phone you're ready to transfer very easily so first we're going to head into the contacts application and then when you add a new contact so when we select the plus here make sure that it says your Google account right there at the top so that it's backing up to that account so sometimes you will see another account to backup to but I just have that one account on this phone to backup all that information so now that we've checked contacts let's check the photo so I'm going to go into all of my apps go to the Google folder and there we have the photos application now if you never have opened this application before it might give you the option to backup everything but I have already done that so now we're going to select the menu right here and then we're gonna go down to the settings and then we're going to go to backup and sync so here we saw this menu before but we're gonna double check that back up and sync is on if you wanted to add any new folders to that backup you could change them right there here it's going to backup my photos when I'm connected to cellular so let's say I'm out taking my photos and then I dropped my phone in the pond or whatever and it's gone forever if it had cellular backup when I took those photos that those photos would have already been backed up so everything is safe so now that I have confirmed the correct settings are set on my old phone let's go ahead and show you how to transfer everything to the new phone when you were at the store setting up your new phone or maybe when you get your device and make sure you follow these instructions so we're going to go through and agree to the terms and that information and right here it's asking if I want to restore information from my old phone through smart switch I could do that but for now we're going to skip that I have plenty videos about how to do that if you want then the next thing is we're going to connect to a Wi-Fi network now you may also have a SIM card in I recommend signing in to your Wi-Fi so that it's not using any of your data plan now that we're connected to the Wi-Fi we can move forward and then here it is asking us to sign into our Google account so we want to make sure that we sign into the same account that we had on the existing phone now I highly recommend signing in here versus going through all of these settings and then signing in once you get to the home screen it just works a lot better than then add your password and then here it is asking if you want to link your phone over to your Google account to make sure that everything is working well and you can have a sick alerts and other information so I'm going to select yes I'm in and then here we need to agree to the terms and conditions of using a Google phone and then once you get to this page it is asking us to choose a backup to restore so here I have a few different phones that I could backup from but right here this SMN 9 6 0 u1 backup was done 8 minutes ago so that is the backup that I did on my Samsung Galaxy Note 9 and now I can restore it to the Samsung Note 10 plus so I'm going to select that backup and then it's going to show me all the information that it can backup so I could restore all the applications I had installed on my note 9 here I have all of those contacts that can restore my call history my device passwords and more and then SMS messages and then here we have information that's automatically going to be syncing because I added my Google account which is Google Calendar Google contacts Google photos and Gmail so for the application so you can actually tap on this and you can go through and maybe you don't want some of these applications to come over so let's say you want to clean up the amount of apps that you have on a new device that you don't use anymore you can actually go through and uncheck ones that you don't want to come over okay so i've gone through the list and uncheck some of the apps that I no longer use anymore and then here at the bottom these are applications that will be installed manually just because you have a Google phone so it's going to install a lot of those apps or because Samsung is requiring these certain applications to be installed when you activate this device and then once you have all the applications ready you can select ok and here at the top it's saying that's going to use 6.5 gig of my 241 gig available so now that I'm ready I'm going to select restore and then here we're going to go through and quickly set up the rest of our phones so we can agree to the time we could add fingerprint or password to protect our device I'm not going to do that right now we're going to skip it and then here it's asking us to set up our Google assistant so we're going to select accept and then because this is the Samsung Galaxy Note 10 to be installed to the phone just to have a better user experience once the phone is loaded and then here are some other applique that would be installed from Google so if I'm happy with all those I could uncheck some of them so I'm not gonna use the Outlook application let's see I think I'm gonna use pretty much all those other ones and I want to try out this quick measure so we're going to select ok and then it's going to start downloading all the information in the background like I said before make sure you're on Wi-Fi so if you get this at the store you can go through this whole process get to the home screen and then when you get home and connect to the Wi-Fi it will automatically start downloading those applications once you connect to that Wi-Fi so it's not going to be using your data if you have a limited data plan so that just took a minute now it's asking to sign into our Samsung account now that's a whole nother way in which you can backup all your information and everything but you do have this new option which I highly recommend is you can actually connect with your Google account to your Samsung accounts so they're one in the same and Samsung account has a lot of benefits that I'll talk about on another video so for right now I'm actually going to skip that step and here are some of those things that you get when you sign up for a Samsung Account so if you're interested in that click the sign-in button but we're gonna skip for now and now we are all done and we can select finish to go to the home screen and begin using our phone so once you get to this home page it will show you this notification in the notification panel that it is going to still go through that setup process so it's mostly restored everything like the contacts and some of that information but right now it's saying there's still 200 applications that it needs to download so that's definitely going to take some time to download all of those applications on the phone so I'm going to let it do that and we'll come back and show you everything that was restored so that did take a while as it had to read download every single one of those applications to my note 10 plus here so if we go into the notification bar here you can see that it's still downloading but it says that ten of the Downloads failed so we're going to tap on that to see if there's any other information and so it's taking us right into the Play Store and here it's showing all the applications that updated there were some that do still need to be updated so we're just gonna select update all right there alright so now let's go through the list and double check that everything did get transferred over so the first thing was apps so when we go into our and roar we can see that we have tons of different applications that all have been downloaded to the device so that worked great just as expected it did take longer than doing something like the Smart Switch transfer but this is definitely an option next let's check the call history so we're going to go into the phone application then we're gonna go into recents and so here I haven't made any phone calls with this I haven't done anything but you can see that I have quite a bit of call history here and the device now the next thing is contact so if we select contacts down here you can see that I now have all of these different contacts that were all backed up on my Google account and I also have pictures there if I had those attached my Google account so it looks like my contacts did great if I go down to the bottom I can see how many contacts I had so here it's saying that I have 1588 contacts previously it said I had something like 2000 which I believe I actually had many duplicates so it looks like it is not showing those duplicates anymore and all of my contacts are right here now the next is device settings so to verify that lets go into the settings of the device and a few other things would be Wi-Fi network so if we go into our Wi-Fi connections go to advanced and then scroll down here and we can go to manage networks and then here we can see other networks that I've connected to in the last 30 days so those are definitely in here so if you previously connect to other or multiple Wi-Fi throughout the day all that information should be transferred next is photos and videos so if we open up the Google application here you'll see that photos app so if we open photos as soon as we open it it's asking if we want to enable backup and sync I highly recommend that we do this and so then we can see all our old photos and it will continue to backup any note new photos that we take so we're gonna select next and then here you choose high quality or original I'm going to choose high quality and then backup over cellular data when there's no Wi-Fi if you have an unlimited data plan you could select that but right now we're just going to select confirm so now it's taking you through how you can search for your content and it's going to organize all your photos and then create these little fun things from your photos so instantly you can see all my photos are here so these are all the pictures that I've taken with my phones that are backed up on my Google account so if something's not in here that I had on my previous phone it's most likely because it was in a different folder that wasn't being backed up so you could go to your old phone make sure that it's backed up connect it to Wi-Fi and then they would start showing up here so going forward any photo I take will be backed up in here and I'm confident that if I lose my phone or anything I'll have access to those photos now real quick I do want to mention that all the photos backed up to the Google account are only in the Google Photos application if I go into my apps and go into the gallery you will not see any of those photos here in the gallery so this is great because it saves space on your phone having them all in the Google cloud but they are not available to be accessed here unless I go into the Google Photos application and I select a picture tap the menu and select save to device then I can go back to the phone's gallery application and now you can see I have saved that picture to the device now next is SMS text messages now here is our text message app and I said before that many of the messages have never come through but there you go it looks like it does back up text messages so that you can see all of that information and if I scroll down here it actually goes back really far I have text messages coming in from 2016 that were backed up to my account so yes it definitely does back up that information so I haven't signed into my Samsung Account or anything so I can verify that those do come through when you do the Google backup restore so to also mention that because I have my Google Account sync it will backup other things like calendar so here in the calendar we can see that all of my events are there if I add a new calendar event we can see that I have all of those different calendars as well so that all came over just fine also it talked about backing up the contacts we already check that and then it talked about wallpaper so here on the main screen that's the new wallpaper and then if we go to the lockscreen that's the new wallpaper so another thing I'm really concerned about I like these wallpapers better but if you did want to make sure that your wallpaper transferred over you would either need to that picture downloaded somewhere so you could riad it but that was the only thing that didn't transfer over now even though all of our applications did come over it's a little bit hard to find them so make sure you go into the settings here and sort and I like to sort by alphabetical order so I can actually find things so the last thing I want to show you is that when you go into these applications they are not signed in to any account yet it didn't automatically pull over that information for security reasons so let's say we go into an application and we want to log in so here in reddit I log in but I can't remember my username or password so I've already signed in to read it on Google Chrome on my computer and I want to have that information here without me having to re-type everything so this is how you are able to go about doing that without having to type in all your accounts and passwords again so if we go into the settings of the phone and then we're going to go down to general management and then language and input down here you have what is called autofill service so this is the service that is on Android that will automatically fill in your username and passwords that are allowed to be saved to Google so right now it's set to samsung pass by default but I'm going to choose Google and then here it's asking if we trust this application so I select ok and so now if I click the Settings here it's actually going to tell me a little bit more about autofill with Google so here with a single tap you'll fill in passwords addresses credit cards and other information from your Google account here you can choose what account that's going to be from so that's the correct account and because this does link through Chrome sync you will need to add a passphrase if you have that enabled so that it can access all that information now that we've added our information here we can go in and see all the information it knows and understand so if I want to adjust my address or anything I can come in here and do that and then I also have the option down here for passwords so if I open this up it's going to show me my password manager and then I can see all the different applications that know my password and have them saved so here if we tap on one of these we could edit the safe passwords but you do need to have a lock screen setup on your phone to be able to access those settings so now that we have Google autofill enabled let's go back to Reddit and sign in so now when I tap on the name I can select autofill and here we can see my username and it's automatically pulling in from Google so I'm going to choose that it automatically enter that information and then I can select login and now I have logged into that application without typing out anything this is something that now when I set up my phone I can go through and add all that information and if there's an app you haven't added that information to it most likely will ask to save that info so the next time you do this it's really easy to log back into your account now if you also want to have access to all those passwords and information at while you were browsing the internet make sure you go into the Google Chrome application and then you will want to go in here into the settings and then here you need to sign into the same account and then here we can use the passphrase and sync all of our Google passwords and autofill information into Google Chrome as well and then here it is showing you what is going to back up so it's going to sink our chrome data and here we could manage all of that information so that is how you backup everything to your Google account and to restore it to your brand-new phone now I'm using the Galaxy Note 10 this could be done with any other Android phone as well so if you don't have all your stuff backed up to Google or you just want to do a copy from your old phone to your new phone I definitely recommend checking out samsung Smart Switch as it will pretty much copy everything over wirelessly from phone to phone without a Wi-Fi connection and then you can have all of your information here one of the other benefits of that is it will actually backup your home screen so exactly how you had your phone laid out that will show up on the new phone I really wish Google would add that to this backup service but if you want to see how to do that make sure you check out the video right here on the side I explained exactly how that's done and how you can get everything copy it over so if you have any further questions about this process please let me know in the comments below and if you want to see that video all about Smart Switch make sure you select the playlist over here on the side thank you so much for watching we'll see you on the next onetoday I'm going to show you how to properly backup your Google Account on your existing Android phone so that when you transfer to a new phone now or later in the future everything is ready to go as soon as you sign into your Google account let's get started everybody welcome to tech with Bret where I help tech work for you now as a Android fan I love how my contacts and calendar and everything is completely backed up on my Google account so that when I transfer to a new phone pretty much everything is there now today I will show you the proper way to make sure that everything is backed up so you're not missing any info when you go to your new phone as well as if you are missing info how to properly get that transferred over as well so the first thing that we need to do is make sure that we have a Google account on our phone so today I'm using the Samsung Galaxy Note 9 but this will work on any other Android phone as well so we're gonna do that by going into the settings of the phone I like to pull down the notification shade and press the settings right here so once we get to this menu I'm gonna scroll down and find an option that says account and backup so if I open this I have a few different options so there you can see all the accounts that are added to your phone but I'm actually going to go to the backup and restore portion so under this option because this is a samsung phone I do have a Samsung Account backup so you can back up your information that way that actually offers a lot of cool features but today we're just talking about the Google account right here so here you can see that my backup data is turned on so everything is being backed up here under backup account you can see my email address and if you don't have that info right there you could click and tap to add the email address you want to have everything backed up to and then down here we can actually go into Google account settings so this is going to show you a little bit more about what is backed up so right here it's saying backed up to Google Drive and if we click on the little question mark here it's going to tell us a little bit more about what is actually backed up so here you can read through all of this but it's mainly going to backup photos and videos automatically but if you want files and folders backed up you do need to manually do that from Google Drive so let's go back here so right now because I'm going to do the transfer I'm going to select backup now just to make sure everything is backed up here we can see it's backing up to my account and then here it shows what kind of information is being backed up so I have certain applications that are being backed up so it's going to load all those apps that have info that's being backed up to my Google account and that could be settings or other data that I've given permission to my Google account to store so here we have call history here we have contacts here we have device settings so this is certain things like the wallpaper Wi-Fi password and default applications on the phone so next we have photos and videos so if we open this up it's going to show us all the settings that are selected and right here we have backup and synced enabled now if you don't have that I highly recommend turning that on and make sure that the upload size says high quality this means it's going to upload an unlimited amount of storage without ever having to pay anything so it's going to load those at a very high quality you're not going to notice the difference between what you take on your phone and what is actually backed up and then if you want to make sure everything is backed up on your phone including all the other photo albums you may have select this backup device folders and then you go in here and you turn all of those on so I don't know if I want all of that information right now it's kind of a lot of stuff so we're just going to keep it with the normal backup of my gallery right now and then the last option here is SMS text messages so this backup will include sent and receive messages this does not include MMS media so no picture messages so as of right now I've actually never seen that work so I highly recommend checking out Smart Switch to be able to backup all of your text messages from your old phone to your new device so now that that looks good here you can see that it's still backing up some of the information right at the top of the screen so let's wait a minute until that's backed up and you can also see that bar right here in the notification panel indicating that the backup is still in progress okay the backup has now finished so we're going to go back and then the last option here is you have automatic restore so that means once you add your Google account to the new phone it's automatically going to restore that info so if you tap on this it's going to turn that off and then it turn it back on now before we go to the new phone if you're going to continue using your phone let's make sure that from now on if you're taking pictures or adding new contacts all that information is backed up so that as soon as you get the new phone you're ready to transfer very easily so first we're going to head into the contacts application and then when you add a new contact so when we select the plus here make sure that it says your Google account right there at the top so that it's backing up to that account so sometimes you will see another account to backup to but I just have that one account on this phone to backup all that information so now that we've checked contacts let's check the photo so I'm going to go into all of my apps go to the Google folder and there we have the photos application now if you never have opened this application before it might give you the option to backup everything but I have already done that so now we're going to select the menu right here and then we're gonna go down to the settings and then we're going to go to backup and sync so here we saw this menu before but we're gonna double check that back up and sync is on if you wanted to add any new folders to that backup you could change them right there here it's going to backup my photos when I'm connected to cellular so let's say I'm out taking my photos and then I dropped my phone in the pond or whatever and it's gone forever if it had cellular backup when I took those photos that those photos would have already been backed up so everything is safe so now that I have confirmed the correct settings are set on my old phone let's go ahead and show you how to transfer everything to the new phone when you were at the store setting up your new phone or maybe when you get your device and make sure you follow these instructions so we're going to go through and agree to the terms and that information and right here it's asking if I want to restore information from my old phone through smart switch I could do that but for now we're going to skip that I have plenty videos about how to do that if you want then the next thing is we're going to connect to a Wi-Fi network now you may also have a SIM card in I recommend signing in to your Wi-Fi so that it's not using any of your data plan now that we're connected to the Wi-Fi we can move forward and then here it is asking us to sign into our Google account so we want to make sure that we sign into the same account that we had on the existing phone now I highly recommend signing in here versus going through all of these settings and then signing in once you get to the home screen it just works a lot better than then add your password and then here it is asking if you want to link your phone over to your Google account to make sure that everything is working well and you can have a sick alerts and other information so I'm going to select yes I'm in and then here we need to agree to the terms and conditions of using a Google phone and then once you get to this page it is asking us to choose a backup to restore so here I have a few different phones that I could backup from but right here this SMN 9 6 0 u1 backup was done 8 minutes ago so that is the backup that I did on my Samsung Galaxy Note 9 and now I can restore it to the Samsung Note 10 plus so I'm going to select that backup and then it's going to show me all the information that it can backup so I could restore all the applications I had installed on my note 9 here I have all of those contacts that can restore my call history my device passwords and more and then SMS messages and then here we have information that's automatically going to be syncing because I added my Google account which is Google Calendar Google contacts Google photos and Gmail so for the application so you can actually tap on this and you can go through and maybe you don't want some of these applications to come over so let's say you want to clean up the amount of apps that you have on a new device that you don't use anymore you can actually go through and uncheck ones that you don't want to come over okay so i've gone through the list and uncheck some of the apps that I no longer use anymore and then here at the bottom these are applications that will be installed manually just because you have a Google phone so it's going to install a lot of those apps or because Samsung is requiring these certain applications to be installed when you activate this device and then once you have all the applications ready you can select ok and here at the top it's saying that's going to use 6.5 gig of my 241 gig available so now that I'm ready I'm going to select restore and then here we're going to go through and quickly set up the rest of our phones so we can agree to the time we could add fingerprint or password to protect our device I'm not going to do that right now we're going to skip it and then here it's asking us to set up our Google assistant so we're going to select accept and then because this is the Samsung Galaxy Note 10 to be installed to the phone just to have a better user experience once the phone is loaded and then here are some other applique that would be installed from Google so if I'm happy with all those I could uncheck some of them so I'm not gonna use the Outlook application let's see I think I'm gonna use pretty much all those other ones and I want to try out this quick measure so we're going to select ok and then it's going to start downloading all the information in the background like I said before make sure you're on Wi-Fi so if you get this at the store you can go through this whole process get to the home screen and then when you get home and connect to the Wi-Fi it will automatically start downloading those applications once you connect to that Wi-Fi so it's not going to be using your data if you have a limited data plan so that just took a minute now it's asking to sign into our Samsung account now that's a whole nother way in which you can backup all your information and everything but you do have this new option which I highly recommend is you can actually connect with your Google account to your Samsung accounts so they're one in the same and Samsung account has a lot of benefits that I'll talk about on another video so for right now I'm actually going to skip that step and here are some of those things that you get when you sign up for a Samsung Account so if you're interested in that click the sign-in button but we're gonna skip for now and now we are all done and we can select finish to go to the home screen and begin using our phone so once you get to this home page it will show you this notification in the notification panel that it is going to still go through that setup process so it's mostly restored everything like the contacts and some of that information but right now it's saying there's still 200 applications that it needs to download so that's definitely going to take some time to download all of those applications on the phone so I'm going to let it do that and we'll come back and show you everything that was restored so that did take a while as it had to read download every single one of those applications to my note 10 plus here so if we go into the notification bar here you can see that it's still downloading but it says that ten of the Downloads failed so we're going to tap on that to see if there's any other information and so it's taking us right into the Play Store and here it's showing all the applications that updated there were some that do still need to be updated so we're just gonna select update all right there alright so now let's go through the list and double check that everything did get transferred over so the first thing was apps so when we go into our and roar we can see that we have tons of different applications that all have been downloaded to the device so that worked great just as expected it did take longer than doing something like the Smart Switch transfer but this is definitely an option next let's check the call history so we're going to go into the phone application then we're gonna go into recents and so here I haven't made any phone calls with this I haven't done anything but you can see that I have quite a bit of call history here and the device now the next thing is contact so if we select contacts down here you can see that I now have all of these different contacts that were all backed up on my Google account and I also have pictures there if I had those attached my Google account so it looks like my contacts did great if I go down to the bottom I can see how many contacts I had so here it's saying that I have 1588 contacts previously it said I had something like 2000 which I believe I actually had many duplicates so it looks like it is not showing those duplicates anymore and all of my contacts are right here now the next is device settings so to verify that lets go into the settings of the device and a few other things would be Wi-Fi network so if we go into our Wi-Fi connections go to advanced and then scroll down here and we can go to manage networks and then here we can see other networks that I've connected to in the last 30 days so those are definitely in here so if you previously connect to other or multiple Wi-Fi throughout the day all that information should be transferred next is photos and videos so if we open up the Google application here you'll see that photos app so if we open photos as soon as we open it it's asking if we want to enable backup and sync I highly recommend that we do this and so then we can see all our old photos and it will continue to backup any note new photos that we take so we're gonna select next and then here you choose high quality or original I'm going to choose high quality and then backup over cellular data when there's no Wi-Fi if you have an unlimited data plan you could select that but right now we're just going to select confirm so now it's taking you through how you can search for your content and it's going to organize all your photos and then create these little fun things from your photos so instantly you can see all my photos are here so these are all the pictures that I've taken with my phones that are backed up on my Google account so if something's not in here that I had on my previous phone it's most likely because it was in a different folder that wasn't being backed up so you could go to your old phone make sure that it's backed up connect it to Wi-Fi and then they would start showing up here so going forward any photo I take will be backed up in here and I'm confident that if I lose my phone or anything I'll have access to those photos now real quick I do want to mention that all the photos backed up to the Google account are only in the Google Photos application if I go into my apps and go into the gallery you will not see any of those photos here in the gallery so this is great because it saves space on your phone having them all in the Google cloud but they are not available to be accessed here unless I go into the Google Photos application and I select a picture tap the menu and select save to device then I can go back to the phone's gallery application and now you can see I have saved that picture to the device now next is SMS text messages now here is our text message app and I said before that many of the messages have never come through but there you go it looks like it does back up text messages so that you can see all of that information and if I scroll down here it actually goes back really far I have text messages coming in from 2016 that were backed up to my account so yes it definitely does back up that information so I haven't signed into my Samsung Account or anything so I can verify that those do come through when you do the Google backup restore so to also mention that because I have my Google Account sync it will backup other things like calendar so here in the calendar we can see that all of my events are there if I add a new calendar event we can see that I have all of those different calendars as well so that all came over just fine also it talked about backing up the contacts we already check that and then it talked about wallpaper so here on the main screen that's the new wallpaper and then if we go to the lockscreen that's the new wallpaper so another thing I'm really concerned about I like these wallpapers better but if you did want to make sure that your wallpaper transferred over you would either need to that picture downloaded somewhere so you could riad it but that was the only thing that didn't transfer over now even though all of our applications did come over it's a little bit hard to find them so make sure you go into the settings here and sort and I like to sort by alphabetical order so I can actually find things so the last thing I want to show you is that when you go into these applications they are not signed in to any account yet it didn't automatically pull over that information for security reasons so let's say we go into an application and we want to log in so here in reddit I log in but I can't remember my username or password so I've already signed in to read it on Google Chrome on my computer and I want to have that information here without me having to re-type everything so this is how you are able to go about doing that without having to type in all your accounts and passwords again so if we go into the settings of the phone and then we're going to go down to general management and then language and input down here you have what is called autofill service so this is the service that is on Android that will automatically fill in your username and passwords that are allowed to be saved to Google so right now it's set to samsung pass by default but I'm going to choose Google and then here it's asking if we trust this application so I select ok and so now if I click the Settings here it's actually going to tell me a little bit more about autofill with Google so here with a single tap you'll fill in passwords addresses credit cards and other information from your Google account here you can choose what account that's going to be from so that's the correct account and because this does link through Chrome sync you will need to add a passphrase if you have that enabled so that it can access all that information now that we've added our information here we can go in and see all the information it knows and understand so if I want to adjust my address or anything I can come in here and do that and then I also have the option down here for passwords so if I open this up it's going to show me my password manager and then I can see all the different applications that know my password and have them saved so here if we tap on one of these we could edit the safe passwords but you do need to have a lock screen setup on your phone to be able to access those settings so now that we have Google autofill enabled let's go back to Reddit and sign in so now when I tap on the name I can select autofill and here we can see my username and it's automatically pulling in from Google so I'm going to choose that it automatically enter that information and then I can select login and now I have logged into that application without typing out anything this is something that now when I set up my phone I can go through and add all that information and if there's an app you haven't added that information to it most likely will ask to save that info so the next time you do this it's really easy to log back into your account now if you also want to have access to all those passwords and information at while you were browsing the internet make sure you go into the Google Chrome application and then you will want to go in here into the settings and then here you need to sign into the same account and then here we can use the passphrase and sync all of our Google passwords and autofill information into Google Chrome as well and then here it is showing you what is going to back up so it's going to sink our chrome data and here we could manage all of that information so that is how you backup everything to your Google account and to restore it to your brand-new phone now I'm using the Galaxy Note 10 this could be done with any other Android phone as well so if you don't have all your stuff backed up to Google or you just want to do a copy from your old phone to your new phone I definitely recommend checking out samsung Smart Switch as it will pretty much copy everything over wirelessly from phone to phone without a Wi-Fi connection and then you can have all of your information here one of the other benefits of that is it will actually backup your home screen so exactly how you had your phone laid out that will show up on the new phone I really wish Google would add that to this backup service but if you want to see how to do that make sure you check out the video right here on the side I explained exactly how that's done and how you can get everything copy it over so if you have any further questions about this process please let me know in the comments below and if you want to see that video all about Smart Switch make sure you select the playlist over here on the side thank you so much for watching we'll see you on the next one\n"