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How it works instead:

1) Apps that are on the Google Play get re-installed. F-Droid? Russian banking apps? Unlucky!
2a) The half of the data gets copied, the other half doesn’t. You can’t figure out which is which. You need to open each app and look for yourself.
2b) It doesn’t matter if the app gets reinstalled or not; its data *may or may not* be there.
3) Only the ‘standard’ folders (‘Pictures’, ‘Downloads’) get transferred. Other folders that I’ve deliberately put in the root don’t.

Like 11 Aug 2023 at 7:36 | Open on fosstodon.org

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Nikita

My alarm clock, ‘Sleep as Android’, got transferred with settings. My authenticator, ‘Aegis’, didn’t get re-installed, but kept its data. My habit tracker, ‘Loop’, neither got re-installed nor kept its data. Most apps got re-installed, but lost their data and settings.

11 Aug 2023 at 7:41 | Open on fosstodon.org

Nikita

Kudos to apps that allow exporting everything: Data AND settings. Less kudos to apps that can export data, but not settings (looking at you, @AntennaPod). No kudos to apps who can’t do either and need to be reconfigured manually.

11 Aug 2023 at 7:42 | Open on fosstodon.org

AntennaPod

@kytta We know the experience is not ideal. Unfortunately our typical database size (let alone the size including audio files) is too big to be included in Android's automatic back-up functionality. Thus we haven't integrated this functionality in our app.
For the inclusion of settings in the export there is an open feature request: https://github.com/AntennaPod/AntennaPod/issues/4089

11 Aug 2023 at 9:49 | Open on fosstodon.org