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Restore my phone from an earlier data.

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Jose007
Cosmic Ray
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Galaxy S22
Good morning family. May God bless you all.
If I restore my Samsung S22 Ultra from an earlier backup from my Samsung S20 Ultra, including messages, pictures, videos, contacts, etc. Would it delete my current data?
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qzrl
Asteroid
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Galaxy S22
I don't think it will, but I have never restored my phone & all I could find online is what does a factory reset do.
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Tidbitty
Supernova
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Galaxy S22
Yes it will.
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realaud
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Galaxy S22

If you still have the S20, you can use Smart Switch and selectively restore only your messages and photos and data.  When restoring messages, it should restore any messages contained in the old backup but not delete any new messages.  To my knowledge, messages and photos and personal data are not contained in the cloud backup.  They would be contained in a complete backup to an external device made using Smart Switch.  So, if you have an old backup of an old phone in the cloud and are hoping to recover old messages and files, you may be out of luck. But if you still have the old device, you should have no problem.

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Tidbitty
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Galaxy S22
Last I remember it'll rewrite the file that holds the text messages. I could be wrong though been a while since I used backups.
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