Help Best app for a MacBookPro to backup an Android (Samsung) ?

[AppleUser]

One would think that this is simple, but it is not. I've tried five apps and they have issues:

1. Won't connect to phone
2. Won't back up calendar
3. Might backup only "My Calendar"
4. MobileTrans demands installing "Connector" and the phone warns not to do it.

I read about exporting as an ICS file, but I prefer to have an integrated complete backup. It's unclear if Samsung's Smart Switch (which connects like a charm) will back up any of the Calendar.

Kindly help.

 

[Milo Willamson]

One would think that this is simple, but it is not. I've tried five apps and they have issues:

1. Won't connect to phone
2. Won't back up calendar
3. Might backup only "My Calendar"
4. MobileTrans demands installing "Connector" and the phone warns not to do it.

I read about exporting as an ICS file, but I prefer to have an integrated complete backup. It's unclear if Samsung's Smart Switch (which connects like a charm) will back up any of the Calendar.

Kindly help.

Yup it will back up your calander events.
Samsung switch saved me a few times

 

[AppleUser]

Yup it will back up your calander events.
Samsung switch saved me a few times

Really? Will Switch backup all Calendar events or only the My Calendar events NOT associated with gmail? Switch is the only App which easily and reliably connects to the Samsung Android.

 

[Milo Willamson]

Really? Will Switch backup all Calendar events or only the My Calendar events NOT associated with gmail? Switch is the only App which easily and reliably connects to the Samsung Android.

Every app will transfer from one device to the other.
Just download it both to either or and just hit sent to transfer and plug, wait for a few minutes.

 

[Hadron]

Smart Switch is fine for backing up the device's storage. I've never relied on it for Calendar backups so can't say: my calendars are synced, so I don't really need a local backup like that (but would probably just do an ics export if I did - just like I occasionally do vcf backups of my contacts).

Google used to have a utility called Android File Transfer for USB copy between Android and Mac, but they abandoned it years ago and seem only to support USB transfer to Windows these days. It might still work for you, but it never backed-up Calendar events anyway (unless, of course, you made an ics backup first, in which case that can be copied like anything else).

Basically Google want you to pay them for Cloud storage and back up everything that way, and have never been that interested in USB backups (unlike Apple, who started out from the iPod model where the iPhone synced with iTunes over USB, though they also prefer you to pay for iCloud storage these days). I recently switched from Samsung to a Pixel, so Smart Switch no longer works for me and it seems that Android File Transfer has also stopped working in the 5 years I was using Smart Switch, so right now my options are to either try to find a decent 3rd party utility or plug an SSD into my phone and copy stuff to that (but as noted I'm not concerned with calendar backups because I don't have any local phone-only calendar events so can always recover my calendar data, hence our positions are not the same).