I am looking to migrate my installation to my new pixel 7 Pro. Is there an easy way to restore all apps and data within the apps onto my new phone?

    clean_bull The only way at the moment is backup/restore (to file) function that a few apps have built themselves. There were other ways but they have bugged out from lack of maintainance, and new options are months or years away.

    Contacts can be managed (and moved) by NextCloud and similar via DAVx5, or the old export to .cvs

    App settings themselves might be synced to cloud if you have installed those kinds of apps, or you can create a text file on your PC with detailed how-to for easy fresh install. App data itself is lost if the app doesn't have any manual export function.

      This use case, switching/replacing phones, is the biggest reason I had rooted every one of my phones.

      How come implementing an OS level backup solution (something like SwiftBackup, for example, that can accomplish this task (backing up apps+their data) reliably), is not a bigger priority for the GOS team since rooting is anathema to a secure OS idea?

      An OS level backup solution of a platform that makes it easy to be reset/wiped out in emergency, should provide for an equally easy way to be restored.

        MarSOnEarth It has gotten official replies in multiple other threads. You will find it when you search the forum.

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          MarSOnEarth Robust backup solution has been discussed plenty around here and elsewhere. It's safe to say it's pretty high on everyone's wishlist. Also see.

            Thank you both. Yes, I've read this, but still, I'm just surprised that a proper backup solution doesn't exist yet, and yes, I'd like to keep this issue visible, and even though I'm not yet running GOS (and this is one of the reasons), I'd love to support efforts to implement it.

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              MarSOnEarth I'd love to support efforts to implement it.

              I wonder what the level of overall support is? Are there people who would donate $1000, $100, $50, $10?

              I can imagine there might be 20 people who would be in for $1,000, and 100 people in for $100, and 200 people in for $50 (which would be $40,000, I think), but I don't know if that's true, nor do I know whether it would be enough to matter.

                @GrapheneOS posted their guestimate as "To do this for a backup app, it will take us dedicating around 2 experienced developers to it for a couple months to get it written and then continuing to put work into it for around a year for it to reach the point that it's a great app." which sounds to me like 'two developers for a year' give or take, and that's quite a bit more than $40K.

                What's a better way to fund something like this; through donations to the general GOS project, or specifically for the app (how/who'd handle that?). Also, smaller $ amounts/month are easier to handle for most, in the long run.

                Either way, a proper backup app would definitely be something I'd pitch in to make it a reality.

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                Just to follow up 6 months later still no backup solution, be it built in or third party ?