Phone Backup Precautions

Hey!


I am late again and I don't think I can make excuses. If I had to give a reason then I would say "this is the result of having 3 different jobs". Apologies! Anyway...

Last Monday my phone died... It was a nightmare for me. Gradually the more I thought about it I calmed down because I ONLY lost ALL my contacts and some of my media. I save my stuff in the micro SD card so that was an advantage. After a week of suffering and learning my lesson, here I am to warn you that anything can happen to your phone as well, e.g. lost, stolen, broken, crash, etc.

These are some tips I suggest you follow so if anything happens, you are sorted:



iPhone users:


- Save content in iCloud
- Backup your phone every now and then on iTunes. If something happened to your phone and got a new iPhone, everything would appear on the new one from the old one.
- If you are planning to switch to an Android/Google (and make a good decision), there is an app called Copy My Data, you need a google account/mail and follow the steps in the app. It will allow you to save your pictures and contacts as they are the hardest ones to extract from Apple devices.

I am not an iPhone user and it is out of my understanding why people use apple products in the first place... But these are the tips I would give after dealing with certain iPhone users.




Android/Google users:


- GOOGLE is everything! Trust me! I did not understand this until my phone died and used my google account to my new phone and almost ALL my media were backed up to Google Photos automatically.
- Make sure the automatic backups are turned on with Google.
- Sync your phone with your Google account every now and then.
- When you save your contacts, save it to Google, not SIM or Device. This way all your contacts are safe, no matter what happens to your phone.



Windows phone users:


-Backup everything in OneDrive from your phone.

It is slightly more advantageous for Windows phone users because windows PC and laptops automatically have OneCloud so even if you switched to another you would only have to copy and paste from your laptop's/PC's OneDrive



General tips:


- Keep a copy of your valuable/memorable contents on your computer
- Save as many files as possible in micro SD cards if your phone has the feature to use micro SD cards.
- Keep track of roughly what apps you use and any unnecessary ones, delete them. It is best to keep it as less content as possible for the RAM.
- Refresh/Reset/Backup-Restore your phone once every 6-8 months to refresh the internal system. This is where I went wrong and did nothing to my phone being scared I would lose all my data and at the end, everything lagged and charge would run out in 1-2 hours of light usage.
- Remember passwords. If not at least reset them so you are ready to face the consequences if anything happens and it makes life a bit easy.


Remember, your phone can go any moment, there is no guarantee, just like our lives.......


If you are interested to know, I got the OnePlus 3T. It is the latest model and really worth the price. You might have seen the posters around London Underground. I have been using it for 3 days and as of now, I highly recommend it!  Here is the link if you want to check it out: https://oneplus.net/uk/3t
If you would like it buy it, I suggest to get it from their website (the link I provided) and not O2 or Amazon. These are the only 3 places available to buy currently. #nospons

I customised mine, they do not come like this.

I hope the post was helpful and I apologise for such a late post. Make sure to check back every Saturdays. Feel free to recommend what you would like to read next.

Take care

Yours, Nafiza