Swift Backup Updates

Google Play release v4.0.6

- Apps: Fixed a permissions restore issue on some Xiaomi ROMs

- Apps: Stop uploads when WiFi gets disconnected while running a Schedule that requires WiFi for cloud backups

- Storage: Read/Write access is now tested at the time of switching storages

- Compressed file integrity is now checked during backup stage

- In case of a crash, error stacktrace is now written to a file in

[Internal Storage]/Android/data/org.swiftapps.swiftbackup/files/

folder

- Other minor fixes

Note for Russian users

Google has suspended Play Store billing system in Russia. Users in Russia will not be able to make any payments.

If you have a Lifetime premium plan in Swift Backup, you are unaffected by this.

If you have a yearly premium subscription expiring on or after March 10, 2022 and renewal fails due to the billing system suspension, you can contact support@swiftapps.org with the details of your Google account that owns the subscription purchase. Premium will be temporarily activated for that account until further notice.

New Russian users looking to purchase any premium plan in Swift Backup will not be able to do so until Google resumes Play Store billing system in Russia.

Please do not request to support direct payments via other means. I have no time to manage/maintain orders outside Google Play Store.

#premium #russia

Google Play release v4.0.5

- Apps: Fixed an issue where data changes were not detected during 'cloud only' backups

- Cloud: Added S3 protocol support for cloud services like Amazon S3 and other S3 compatible cloud services

- Cloud: Fixed an issue with Google Drive where some Shared drives were not listed

- Cloud: Fixed an SMB error 'STATUS_USER_SESSION_DELETED'

- Other minor improvements and fixes

Google Play release v4.0.4

- Apps: Fixed a crash during archiving when cloud server isn't reachable

- Cloud: Fixed 'Permission denied' issue with cloud uploads for some users

- Other minor fixes

Google Play release v4.0.3

Google Drive Shared Drives support
- You can now upload your backups to Shared Drives (formerly known as Team Drives) in your Google Drive.

- For this to work, you need to provide Swift Backup 'Full access' to your Google Drive using the option in 'Settings > Cloud backups > Google Drive access mode'. Once enabled, disconnect and reconnect Google Drive in the app.

- Note that after you sign-in Google Drive with 'Full access' in Swift Backup, Google will send you a security notification about Swift Backup having full access to your Google Drive. This is as per their normal practice. Swift Backup will however only access the files created by it regardless of the access mode you select.

Parallel uploads/downloads of all parts of an app
- An experimental option is available in 'Settings > Swift Labs' to upload/download all parts of an app in parallel.

- This should be very useful for cloud services that take some time before executing upload/download of a file. Eg. Google Drive many times takes anywhere between 2-15 seconds to start an upload/download. Executing upload/download of multiple parts of an app in parallel helps with such delays and can save a large amount of time in batch backup/restore from cloud.

Other changes
- Apps: Performance improvements when using SD Cards / USB Drives as backup storage

- Cloud: Fixed duplicate files issue with Mega

- Cloud: Some cloud related settings have now been moved from Swift Labs to 'Settings > Cloud backups'

- Better handling of low storage space issues

- Other minor fixes

Google Play release v4.0.3: Google Drive shared drives support, performance improvements when using SD Cards/USB drives, critical fixes for Mega users.

Full changelog in the next message.

I have updated the APK in this message just now to fix an issue with listing Google Drive's Shared Drives properly. Please redownload if you need this feature.

Google Drive Shared drives support: Enable in Settings > Cloud backups.

v4.0.3_Beta1

Google Drive Shared Drives support
- You can now upload your backups to Shared Drives (formerly known as Team Drives) in your Google Drive.

- For this to work, you need to provide Swift Backup 'Full access' to your Google Drive using the option in 'Settings > Cloud backups > Google Drive access mode'. Once enabled, disconnect and reconnect Google Drive in the app. Screenshot of the options here.

- Note that after you sign-in Google Drive with 'Full access' in Swift Backup, Google will send you a security notification about Swift Backup having full access to your Google Drive. This is as per their normal practice. Swift Backup will however only access the files created by it regardless of the access mode you select.

Parallel uploads/downloads of all parts of an app
- An experimental option is available in 'Settings > Swift Labs' to upload/download all parts of an app in parallel.

- This should be very useful for cloud services that take some time before executing upload/download of a file. Eg. Google Drive many times takes anywhere between 2-15 seconds to start an upload/download. Executing upload/download of multiple parts of an app in parallel helps with such delays and can save a large amount of time in batch backup/restore from cloud.

Other changes
- Apps: You should see substantial performance improvements when using SD Cards / USB Drives. Swift Backup now uses the Internal Storage as working directory for intermediate files during backup/restore when it has the available space. This should speed up the tasks as opposed to using SD Card / USB Drives for working directory which are generally way slower than the Internal Storage of the device.

- Cloud: Some cloud related settings have now been moved from Swift Labs to 'Settings > Cloud backups'

- Better handling of low storage space issues

- Other minor fixes

v4.0.3_Beta1: Changelog in the next message

Google Play release v4.0.2

- Apps: Fixed a crash when using SD Cards/USB drives on MIUI ROMs

- Apps: Fixed broken downgrade when restoring apps from cloud

- Apps: Fixed broken split APKs restore from USB drives

- Other minor fixes

Google Play release v4.0.1

- Fixed an issue where Internal Storage was used as working directory even when SD Card/USB was set as preferred storage

- Fixed app getting stuck for some users when using SD Card / USB drives

- Workaround for failed read/write access on some MIUI ROMs

- Cloud: Fixed some issues when using WebDAV with Windows IIS

Google Play release v4.0.0

Important
Backups taken with v4.x cannot be restored with previous versions of Swift Backup. Backups taken with previous versions are of course supported.

Faster app backup & restore
New backup format with faster compression and encryption of your app backups should cut down your backup & restore time by at least 20%-40% on most devices.

Sign-in without an account with limited features
- Users can now choose to sign-in anonymously, offline, without a Google account. This feature is added for users who only want to use Swift Backup for local backups without any premium features. Cloud backups or premium features cannot be used without Google sign-in.
- Swift Backup settings for anonymous users can be exported/imported using the options in the app settings.
- Note that backups taken with anonymous sign-in cannot be used with accounts with Google sign-in and vice-versa.

Other changes
- Apps: New quick action 'Sync device backups to cloud'
- Apps: Ability to search apps list in batch/quick actions
- Apps: Much faster loading of apps list
- Apps: Quick actions from 'Other' group can now also be pinned to Home
- Apps: Improved checks for app data changes
- Apps: Better free space requirement checks during backup
- Apps: Clean up intermediate files during backup/restore as soon as possible
- Cloud: Faster Google Drive uploads/downloads
- Added launcher icon shortcuts to Run schedule, Open apps Quick actions and Configs
- Labs: Added option to delete GMS files of selected apps. This action may be helpful for users who don't receive notifications with some apps after restore.
- Swift Backup now copies its own APK to 'SwiftBackup' folder in your storage
- Other minor UX improvements and fixes

Google Play release v4.0.0: Faster app backup & restore, support for anonymous sign-in, and other tiny improvements.

Changelog in the next message

v4.0.0_Beta2

Important
Backups taken with v4.x cannot be restored with previous versions of Swift Backup. Backups taken with previous versions are of course supported.

Anonymous sign-in users
Settings for anonymous users are no longer backed up automatically to SwiftBackup folder. Instead, users should Export/Import settings using the options added in Settings. Ideally, you should export Swift Backup settings to a more permanent storage to avoid losing them in case you have to format your device.

Changes
- Storage: Fixed an issue where removable storage write access was failing

- Apps: Clean up intermediate files during backup/restore as soon as possible

- Apps: Better free space requirement checks during backup

v4.0.0_Beta2: Changelog in the next message

v4.0.0_Beta1

Important
Backups taken with v4.x cannot be restored with previous versions of Swift Backup. Backups taken with previous versions are of course supported.

Changes
- Apps: New quick action 'Sync device backups to cloud'

- Apps: Ability to search apps list in batch/quick actions

- Apps: Quick actions from 'Other' group can now also be pinned to Home

- Cloud: Faster Google Drive uploads/downloads

- Added launcher icon shortcuts to Run schedule, Open apps Quick actions and Configs

- Labs: Added option to delete GMS files of selected apps. This action may be helpful for users who don't receive notifications with some apps after restore.

- Fixed reported issues in v4.0.0_Alpha1

v4.0.0_Beta1: Changelog in the next message

v4.0.0_Alpha1

Faster app backup & restore
- New backup format with faster compression and encryption of your app backups should cut down your backup & restore time by at least 20%-40% on most devices.

- Important: Backups taken with v4.x cannot be restored with previous versions of Swift Backup. Backups taken with previous versions are of course supported.

Sign-in without an account with limited features
- Users can now choose to sign-in anonymously, offline, without a Google account. This feature is added for users who only want to use Swift Backup for local backups without any premium features. Cloud backups or premium features cannot be used without Google sign-in.

- Swift Backup settings, lists of Favorite apps, Blacklisted apps are saved locally for anonymous users in 'SwiftBackup' folder and will be restored from here during sign-in.

- Note that backups taken with anonymous sign-in are encrypted with common encryption keys as opposed to users with Google sign-in where encryption keys are unique for each user. Also, backups taken with anonymous sign-in cannot be used with accounts with Google sign-in and vice-versa.

Other changes
- Apps: Much faster loading of apps list
- Apps: Improved checks for app data changes
- Swift Backup APKs are now saved in 'SwiftBackup' folder
- Other minor UX improvements and fixes

v4.0.0_Alpha1: Changelog in the next message