As high-tech and advanced as all our modern mobile devices are, there's no way of getting around basic user errors. Luckily, the makers of your mobile devices kept such errors in mind. That is why we ...

Depending on what phone you've got, backing up your contacts, messages and pictures can either be really easy or a complete nightmare. Hopefully, you've got a phone that's relatively straightforward, ...

How many phone numbers do you know by heart? Relying on tech to remember such things can feel precarious, but there are just too many details for our brains to store. So it makes sense to defer to our ...

Are you looking for a way to back up Android contacts? The days of asking Facebook friends to send their digits are long gone. It’s also no longer really necessary to transfer your contacts one by one ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Your contacts, like all the personal data stored on your Galaxy S10, can be backed up so they are safe if your phone is ever lost, damaged, or ...

Worried about losing important photos and files on your mobile device? Google One can back up certain data from your phone for safekeeping. Lance is an experienced writer who tries to unravel the ...

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It’s kind of a pain to back up the numbers in your phone even for people who know how, so imagine how your mother feels. Now you can skip the Google search to see if your phone’s compatible with your ...

Backing up your iPhone will come in handy if you ever lose your phone or need to transfer contacts to a new device. Your iPhone probably contains thousands of pictures of places you visited, the ...

The easiest and quickest method to set up your new iPhone is to restore from a recent iCloud backup. As you walk through the initial setup process, tap Restore from iCloud Backup, sign in with your ...

The Mac's Contacts app is incredibly useful for storing personal and work contact info. Here's how to back up your Contacts database. macOS's Contacts app lives in the /Applications folder at the root ...

Q: I recently changed phone service providers from T-Mobile to Verizon. When I ported my home phone number, I realized that I no longer had access to voicemails that my wife was saving. T-Mobile tells ...