Restore your data from a backup

Steps

1. 1Open Import Data

   Open the menu with the button at the top left of the home screen, tap Account, then Data & Privacy, Data backup and Import Data. Available Backups lists the files the app already has, the ones you exported here and the ones you picked before.

   

2. 2Choose the backup file

   Tap Select File from Device and pick the backup in the Files app of your phone. It shows up under Selected File with its name and size, and Next takes you on.

   

3. 3Decide how the data comes in

   Merge is chosen to begin with and marked Recommended. It adds what is new in the file and keeps the rest of your data, and where a record is in both places, the version from the file wins. Clean deletes everything on the phone first and puts the backup in its place. Safe and Unsafe are in the list too, both "Not available for now".

   

4. 4Replace everything with Clean

   On a new phone, where nothing of your own is there yet, Clean gives you exactly the copy you saved. Tap it, and a window warns that the data on the phone will be deleted and that this can't be undone. Tick I understand the risk and want to proceed and tap Confirm. On a phone that already holds something you want to keep, Cancel leaves Merge in place.

   

5. 5Start the import

   Tap Next. The app checks the file on its own, and "Validation passed" means it is a backup the app can read, here in format 3.0.0. Tap Start Import.

   

6. 6Read the report

   When "Import complete" appears, the report shows how many records came in and how they spread over the parts of the app. Tap Done, and the diary, the calendars and the topics are back in their places.