📢 Important notice
- If you use an SD Card with Swift Backup, you will need to set it again so the app can request permission via the system 'Files' app.
- 'App + Split APKs' is now shortened to 'APKs' and just 'APK' is shown for apps with a single APK.
Android 12 support
- Android 12 is now fully supported. In a future release, you will also see Material You theme support.
- Swift Backup now targets Android 12 (SDK 31) and requires the new 'All files access' permission.
Shizuku support
On non-rooted devices, Swift Backup now supports Shizuku and can perform many batch actions with ADB access provided by Shizuku.
✅ Below app related features work in Shizuku mode as these features only require ADB access:
- Batch Backup of supported* app parts (*See below)
- Batch Restore of supported* app parts without user interaction (*See below)
- Batch Enable/Disable apps
- Batch Uninstall apps
- Backup/Restore of app permissions
- Toggling battery optimization state of an app
❌ Below features don't work in Shizuku mode and ABSOLUTELY require root access:
- App 'Data' backup/restore i.e. the 'real' internal data that stores app login details, settings, databases, etc.
- On Android 11 (R), app External Data and Expansion backup/restore. Works on other Android versions with Shizuku.
- WiFi passwords backup
Other changes
- Apps: Added support for app 'Media' directory backup (Eg.
Android/media/com.example.packagename/)- Apps: Faster loading of apps list, slightly faster file operations
- Apps: Improved and more precise progress indication during app backup and restore
- Apps: You can now clear app data parts (Data, Ext. Data, etc) individually in the detail screen for an app
- Apps: Added ability to batch delete only 'Archived' backups
- Apps: Labels are now synced in realtime on other devices a user may have
- Apps: New filter 'Labelled apps'
- Apps: New built-in labels available in Schedules and Configs as per user requests
- Messages: Fixed an MMS restore issue on MIUI ROMs
- WiFi: Backup/Restore open WiFi networks
- Schedule: Added support for Wallpapers and WiFi schedules
- Schedule: More customizable minimum battery percent requirement (10%, 20%...etc)
- Cloud: You can now 'Save' and 'Load' your cloud setup parameters for SMB, SFTP, FTP and WebDAV servers using a location picked from your system file picker. These options are in the 3 dot menu of the setup screen. You can also save the settings from the 'Cloud sync' tab.
- Cloud: Some bug fixes related to OneDrive, Box, WebDAV, SMB, FTP
- Fixed a root access issue on some older Samsung devices with stock ROMs
- Long pressing the Google sign-in button at app startup now starts browser based sign-in. This is helpful for people having sign-in issues when using a custom webview like Bromite.
- Other small fixes and improvements