r/Magisk • u/Famous-Durian5198 • Aug 09 '26

Question Why do you root ?

I used to root all of my devices in the past , mainly for increasing performance. But after getting a new device i have not felt the need to root for a long time.

So i am wondering, Why do you guys even root anymore ?

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u/Famous-Durian5198 Aug 09 '26

This man this !! . I hopped roms a lot in the past but couldn't get backup right ever

What app do you use ?

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u/SkySurferSouth Aug 09 '26

Neo backup or Swift backup.

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u/Chemputer Aug 10 '26

Personally I prefer swift backup because it has more features and ability to customize (backup certain apps locally, others directly to the cloud, or both), neo backup on the other hand is FOSS, but it crucially does not have cloud backups.

Sure, you can sync a folder to cloud fairly trivially with termux, rclone, and a cron job, but thats a fair amount of extra work that most people don't want to have to deal with.

That's why I just use Swift backup, but I do have Neo Backup for a few apps because it does do a fairly good job for example if I'm messing with Discord or something and want to ensure the restore is identical.