New phone day for Android users should get a whole bunch easier.
I would not be against all of this (being able to change device while keeping all app data, including logins would be pretty cool), if it wasn’t could based on Google’s servers. No thanks.
That’s a good point actually.
If I could self-host a server that my devices were authenticated with and constantly backing up to (and geo-tracking), then that would be useful.
Currently I have syncthing and no authentication with anyone/thing else.
This is a major reason I root, so backup apps like NeoBackup actually work.
Then Syncthing keeps those backups in sync with a home machine.
Lose my phone? No big deal, setup Syncthing on new one, let files sync, launch Neo, restore.
Hopefully graphene will rip this shit out
They definitely will, since they don’t even support any of Google’s standard restore features by default.
They use Seedvault instead, which doesn’t have the capability to restore app logins. I have a feeling Seedvault may end up adding that as a feature in the future, though.
No thanks.
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Why? Samsung phones have already been doing this for years and it makes getting a new device so much easier. All I gotta do is login to my account and everything is transferred over.
Honestly, it works so well that I can just start using the new phone without any extra effort. Literally everything is exactly where I left it on the old phone. It’s one of my favorite new features in smartphones.
In the past it used to take me at least two days to set up a new phone the way I like it, and several weeks to months to iron out the kinks and get back logged into everything. Now I can be up and running in under an hour. It’s the best thing ever.
Multiple accounts for one thing. Also I don’t always want to stay logged in to everything.
You trust credencials to Google?
Yes, why wouldn’t we?
Because you literally put all your eggs in one basket…
This may hurt some feelings, but I trust Google more than some FOSS password manager. Besides, I log into pretty much everything with my Google account anyway.
Okay, good for you. you’re comfortable with it. I’m not. I don’t trust any company to control my access to OTHER companies. That at it’s face is a conflict of interest.
That’s some real tinfoil hat stuff, to be honest. If Google did pull something like that, I could always just create an account the old fashioned way.
That’s some real tinfoil hat stuff
If you say so. I only work in IT and security.
If Google did pull something like that
You’d likely never know.
I’d likely never know if Google stopped logging me into the apps I use when I get a new device?
What?
