How To Automatically Backup Your Android Phone

in an ideal world, your Android's apps, their settings, and your system settings would automatically back up to the cloud.

This is so that if you lost your phone, bought a new one, or installed a new custom ROM, setting up a fresh device with everything in place would be a piece of cake.

The good news: This utopian Android backup actually is possible. Here's how to set it up.

We back up our computers religiously, but our phones are often neglected. There are tons of situations in which you may want to have your phone backed up.

Perhaps you uninstalled an app and deleted its settings, only to decide that you want it back. Perhaps you've picked up a new phone, or you've flashed a new custom ROM and you don't feel like reinstalling all your apps and reconfiguring everything from scratch.

An app called Titanium Backup saves you from these annoyances and more, by backing up all your apps and settings to your SD card (or to the cloud via Dropbox) and restoring them worry-free. You can even schedule backups, set them, and forget them until you need that data back. It's one of the best apps an Android user could have in their toolbox, and if you aren't using it, you really should.

The biggest and best feature of Titanium Backup is, obviously backing up your phone's data. What's really nice about it is that it's an incremental backup, meaning it will back up everything the first time, and then after that, back up only the apps that have updated, so you won't need to go through a long backup process every time.