They don't work well in my experience.
What I want is to get my home screen back exactly as I left it: I've not found anything able to pull it off on Android though.
Ideally it would be an exact flash image of the phone.
Adb backup exists, though I haven't tried it, and Google cloud backup does this. However, if you trust Google, you probably already trust the US.
Unfortunately, I don't know of any other app that does this on an unrooted phone.
>Adb backup exists, though I haven't tried it,
It's very patchy, and many (most?) apps opt out, so it's functionally useless.
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