Are you backing up your smartphone, beyond the cloud, to a physical storage?

It is surprising how little attention we pay to backing up data on our smartphones, even though that’s where our important messages, photos and videos, emails, documents and apps lie. But for most other things, such as documents or even a broader phone backup, there is a need to manually set up Google Drive, Microsoft’s OneDrive, Dropbox or Proton Drive, to name some familiar options. With Apple having made the switch to USB-C for iPhones, you’d expect greater simplification to happen with external storage devices which can now work across the spectrum – Android phones, Android tablets, Apple’s iPhone and iPad line-ups, Mac computing devices as well as the most common of them all – Windows PCs and hybrids. Actual real-world speeds vary depending on the source device’s port specs and the types of files being transferred – fragmented files always take longer than a single large sized file. While this works with pretty much every smartphone, tablet and computing device you may have, Android phones can take advantage of the SanDisk Memory Zone app, which is a rather convenient way of backing up specific data from the phone to the drive.