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### Backing up your phone
On the Android application, **Android Sync** in the menu under your avatar,
-top right, backs up your phone's photos, contacts, calendar, text messages and
-the files of folders you choose to a group.
+top right, backs up your phone's photos, contacts, calendar and the files of
+folders you choose to a group. Text messages are not backed up.
Only your **personal profile** is backed up. If your phone has a work profile,
nothing in it is sent, and MeshBay installed inside the work profile offers no
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(`calendar-2026-10-10-0900.ics`). Any calendar application can import it;
repeating events, their exceptions and reminders come along.
-#### Text messages
-
-- **Turn on** asks for access to your text messages. The first copy holds them
- all; then, once a day, a new file holds only the ones that arrived or were
- sent since.
-- The files go by year (`alice-messages/2026/sms-2026-10-10-0900.xml`), in the
- XML format SMS backup applications can restore onto a phone. Senders are
- named when contacts backup is also allowed. Multimedia messages (MMS) are
- not included.
-- The version of the application from the Play Store has no text messages
- backup: Play allows reading them only to the phone's messaging application.
-
#### Files
- **Add a folder** opens Android's folder picker: choose `Documents`, a folder