Restore Your Contacts & Settings From A Lost Android Phone To a new One

This article is design to help you recover from the loss of you old Android mobile phone.

It assumes that the Google Backup setting was active on your old phone prior to its loss. It does not matter whether it was lost, stolen or destroyred, it make no difference, even if your pomerainian ate it. this article will help you get back to normal as quickly and as easily as possible.

Should you not have had Google Backup active when you lost your old phone, this article will be of less help. I will release another article about how and what you can recover in this situation and leave a link to it here.

Restoring All Your Stuff to a New Android Phone After Losing You Old Phone

Losing a phone can be a distressing experience, especially if you have important contacts and app settings stored on it. However, restoring your phone contacts and app settings onto a new Android phone is a relatively simple process. Here’s a step-by-step guide to help you restore your phone contacts and app settings.

Restoring Phone Contacts:

Remeber, this only works if your old phone was set to backup the contacts & settings automatically. Here’s how to do it:

1. On your new phone, open the “Settings” app.
2. Scroll down and tap on “Accounts”.
3. Tap on “Google” and sign in with the same account you used to back up your contacts.
4. Toggle on the “Contacts” option to sync your contacts to your new phone.
5. Wait for the syncing process to complete, and your contacts should now be restored to your new phone.
6. Restoring App Settings:
7. Restoring your app settings can be done using the Google backup feature, provided you have enabled it on your lost phone. Here’s how to check:
8. On your lost phone, open the “Settings” app.
9. Scroll down and tap on “Google”.
10. Tap on “Backup”.
11. Ensure that the “Backup to Google Drive” toggle is turned on.
12. Now that your app settings are backed up to Google, you can restore them on your new Android phone by following these steps:
13. On your new phone, turn on your phone and go through the setup process until you reach the “Copy apps & data” screen.
14. Tap on “Next” and select “A backup from the cloud”.
15. Sign in with the same Google account you used to back up your app settings.
16. Choose the backup file you want to use and tap on “Restore”.
17. Wait for the restore process to complete, and your app settings should now be restored to your new phone.

In conclusion, restoring phone contacts and app settings on a new Android phone can seem daunting at first, but with the help of Google’s backup and sync features, it’s a relatively simple process.

Just remember to back up your data regularly, so you’re prepared in case you lose your phone in the future.

Once Google Backup is active on your phone, most all of the backup process will become automatic.l

I hope this list of instructions has made the job of restoring your new phone to have almost all of the information that was on your old Android phone. We don’t realise how much we rely on our phones these days for some much more than just making calls.