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How do you backup your phone after you smash your screen?

Isn't that kind of like asking "How do you put your seat belt on after you've been knocked unconscious in a car accident?"

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No, more like: "How do I get my luggage out of the trunk after a brick goes through the windshield and smashes the trunk lever?"

Only if your luggage can be effortlessly duplicated and there’s a setting to automatically copy your trunk luggage to secure storage on a regular basis.

You pull down the back seat and get into the trunk from inside the car of course. Snark aside, if your phone is dead, the only way to get data out of it will be to get to the "disk" on the device, if that's even possible.

Isn't that more like trying to get your car fixed after a rock flies into your windshield?

No, getting your screen fixed would be like getting your car fixed.

Not at all. Of course it's good to back up a phone regularly, but even if you've done so it would always be preferable to back up one last time and then restore your replacement device from that backup.

This isn't always possible, but if the storage is undamaged, it would be ideal from a continuity perspective.

I rather the device is secure and you protect your device better, than to have a security hole so that your can backup your device after being careless.

Agree 100%. Reminds me of the adage: your lack of planning isn’t my emergency.

But it's certainly possible to do it securely if that eventuality was planned for.

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