📱 DasDing on your phone (Android)
The Android app: your files on the go, phone photos backed up automatically, chat and support.
What it does for you
- You have the files from your personal area with you on the go.
- Photos and videos from your phone are backed up automatically – if the phone is lost, they are not gone.
- Chat, support and “Refer a friend” are in your pocket.
Who it is for: Everyone with an Android phone. There is no iPhone app yet.
What you need: An Android phone and your DasDing account. The app is free.
The phone falls into the water, and with it three years of family photos. This happens to thousands of people every day. With the DasDing app, your photos continuously end up in your storage – the new phone is then just a device, not a loss.
What the app can do
After signing in you see all features as tiles at a glance – one tap and you're in. At the bottom, the wide ▦ menu button (or the phone's back button) takes you back to the tiles:
- Files – view, download and upload everything from your personal area. Also there: ⇄ Sync: folders on the phone (for example the camera, DCIM → Camera) are uploaded automatically.
- Chat – the DasDing chat directly in the app.
- Vault – your passwords and 2FA codes, see Password vault.
- AI – ask Maya.
- SSH – for the technically minded, see SSH console.
- Mail – your mail accounts (if enabled for you).
- Guides – all guides, including this one.
- Support – write to us.
- Refer a friend – pass on your code, see Refer a friend.
Installing
The app is not in the Play Store yet, it comes directly from us:
- On the phone open download.dasding.tech and download the Android app.
- Open the file. Android asks whether the browser may install apps – allow this once (“Install unknown apps”). This message appears for every app that doesn't come from the Play Store.
- Install, open, sign in with your DasDing account.
When there is a new version, the app shows a notice with Download at the top – it checks every time you open it.
Back up phone photos automatically
- In the app open Files → ⇄ Sync.
- Choose a folder on the phone, for example the camera.
- From now on the app uploads new photos and videos by itself – even when it is closed.
As on the PC: the direction is only phone → storage. Nothing is deleted on the phone.
So that Android doesn't kill the backup
Android likes to stop apps in the background to save battery – then photos are left behind. Under ⇄ Sync the app shows whether this threatens on your phone, and has a button for each case:
- Exclude from battery optimisation – so the app may keep running in the background.
- Data saver exception – otherwise Android uploads nothing in the background.
- Allow notifications – for large uploads the app shows progress.
- With some manufacturers (Xiaomi, Huawei, Samsung …) also choose Battery → “Unrestricted” in the app settings; a button takes you straight there.
If the backup hasn't run for more than 24 hours, the app shows a clear notice.
Does this use a lot of battery or mobile data?
The app only uploads what's new. Large videos can use a lot of data – if you have a small data plan, it's best to let the backup run on Wi-Fi.
This guide is also available in the program under 📖 Guides – with jump links to the other guides.