Google Drive is the cloud space offered for free to every Gmail user. You can use it for regular backups of your important files and folders.

Restore Backup from Google Drive to Phone

When using Google Drive for backups including your Android device, it is important to understand the basics of it. Here is a good read from Google support on the same issue.

  • To backup your phone, which must be Android 6 and up, you can save your contacts, apps, call history, device settings and more using Google Drive.
  • To manage backups, all you need to set up the system. Open the Google Drive app on your smartphone, and tap on its menu.
  • This would be the hamburger icon or the three horizontal bars. Then tap on any backup you wish to manage, delete it or export it to somewhere else.
  • You can download it to your phone, and restore the settings and everything such as on a new phone.

Restore Backup from Google Drive to iPhone

You must be using iCloud by default on your iPhone and iOS devices, including Mac. But, if you wish to use Google Drive – https://www.google.com/drive/ instead, you will have to set-up your folders to sync with the cloud, and you can also save contacts, apps and more.

  • Especially, when you backup content, Google Drive allows your iPhone photos to backup into Google Photos, contacts to Google Contacts, and calendar to Google Calendar.
  • It is assumed that you already went through the set-up process and have linked your iPad or iPhone with drive. If not, read this article (https://support.google.com/drive/answer/7070690?co=GENIE.Platform%3DiOS&amp/) on how you can do so.
  • After you have done so, you can view your stuff using the above three apps.

Restore Backup from Google Drive to WhatsApp

To backup your WhatsApp messages from Google Drive to your Android or iPhone, you can do a simple trick mentioned here. First, you have to set up your WhatsApp to backup to Google Drive so that your chats, including attachments (optional), are backed up to the Google Drive.

  • To restore these backups now, you have to launch WhatsApp from your smartphone by tapping on the app icon/ you must be reinstalling WhatsApp now.

  • Then, tap on the ‘Agree and Continue’ option, and then tap on continue again to allow WhatsApp access to your contacts.

  • Verify your country and phone number, as is the mandatory step in WhatsApp, and then when prompted, you must also enter the six-digit verification code.
  • Now, tap to allow WhatsApp access to Google Drive backup, know that you must have the Google Drive app on your smartphone.
  • Tap give permission to allow WhatsApp to check Google Drive for a backup. Tap the account that contains it, and then tap on restore.

TIPS

For iPhone users, you must know that if you had organized your photos into albums, those albums will not be backed up into Google Photos.

How do I restore from Google backup?

You can restore your backed up information to the original phone or to some other Android phones.

Switch between backup accounts

  1. Open your phone’s Settings app.
  2. Tap System. Backup.
  3. Tap Backup account.
  4. Tap the account that you want to use for backups.

How do I restore files from Google Drive?

If you deleted something recently using Google Drive or the Google Drive desktop app, you might be able to restore the file yourself.

Restore files you deleted

  1. On a computer, go to drive.google.com/drive/trash.
  2. Right-click the file you want to recover.
  3. Click Restore.

How do I access my Google Drive Backup?

Alternatively, you can head to ‘drive.google.com/drive/backups‘ to access your backups. It’s worth noting this only applies to the desktop interface. Android users will still find backups in the slide-out side menu in the Drive app.

How do I restore text messages from Google Drive?

Android data backed up to Google Drive can only be restored while logging in on a new device.

  1. Open Google Drive on your phone.
  2. Open the menu by clicking on the three lines button at the top left corner.
  3. Now, select ‘Backups’.
  4. Check if your data has been backed up.