- Google’s been working on a new local backup tool to automatically save phone files to your PC.
- Earlier updates revealed that Samsung phones wouldn’t be supported.
- That language is now expanding to additionally exclude Samsung PCs.
In 2026, you might have expected “storage” to be a largely solved problem, but somehow it never seems to last as long as we’d hope. Between galleries of pics, videos, and all the latest apps we’ve installed, device storage still fills up far too quickly — and we don’t even have microSD expansion anymore! Earlier this year we spotted Google working a new tool that promised to help ease our storage concerns a bit, automatically backing up device files to our PCs. While that’s still not quite ready to make its debut, we’ve uncovered a couple new details about how it’s taking shape.
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