Yep. It’s on my phone I use daily. I still have my photos on Google photos, but I plan to do takeout and store them on my computer.
Backup: Ive been thinking about what I really want to keep, and it’s not much. Basically photos. I don’t have a good solution that is nearly as robust as google drive, but I have old pictures I’ve managed to keep safe on hard drives/computers over the years. I’m just going back to that for now.
I tried a self hosting Google photos clone that looked really great, but I couldn’t figure it out with vpns installed, and I don’t really think my risk profile warrants it. Also, I have gone through several life scenarios where I have lost most artifacts from before, and I’m ok with that.
I did copy over the export files for a few apps:
Energize
RSS
Antennapod
For contacts, I can’t remember exactly the process, but I essentially exported them. I used my computer to do the transfer. I did have some fiddling to get them organized. Google gave me a bunch of contacts that didn’t usually show up in my phone address book because they were email only, so I had a fair amount of cleaning to do.
I did the switch on a weekend, and made sure to give myself plenty of time to get things situated. Probably took a few hours for me to feel everything was workable. Another day before it felt like normal. If you remember what it was like switching phones a long while back – you can imagine it was like that.
Yep. It’s on my phone I use daily. I still have my photos on Google photos, but I plan to do takeout and store them on my computer.
Backup: Ive been thinking about what I really want to keep, and it’s not much. Basically photos. I don’t have a good solution that is nearly as robust as google drive, but I have old pictures I’ve managed to keep safe on hard drives/computers over the years. I’m just going back to that for now.
I tried a self hosting Google photos clone that looked really great, but I couldn’t figure it out with vpns installed, and I don’t really think my risk profile warrants it. Also, I have gone through several life scenarios where I have lost most artifacts from before, and I’m ok with that.
Ok, coupe of things:
I did copy over the export files for a few apps: Energize RSS Antennapod
For contacts, I can’t remember exactly the process, but I essentially exported them. I used my computer to do the transfer. I did have some fiddling to get them organized. Google gave me a bunch of contacts that didn’t usually show up in my phone address book because they were email only, so I had a fair amount of cleaning to do.
I did the switch on a weekend, and made sure to give myself plenty of time to get things situated. Probably took a few hours for me to feel everything was workable. Another day before it felt like normal. If you remember what it was like switching phones a long while back – you can imagine it was like that.