Huawei Backup is an Android app developed by Huawei Internet Services. Others apps created by Huawei Internet Services are: Phone Clone, HUAWEI Video Player, HUAWEI Video, ቪድዮ, HiCare.

Huawei Backup first became available on 13 Apr 2016. It is estimated that Huawei Backup has been downloaded between 500000000 and 1000000000 times from the Play Store.

Huawei Backup 10.0.1.350 requires the following permissions:

Allows applications to access information about networks.

Allows applications to access information about Wi-Fi networks.

Allows applications to change network connectivity state.

Allows applications to change Wi-Fi connectivity state.

Allows access to the list of accounts in the Accounts Service.

Allows an application to find out the space used by any package.

Allows an application to install packages.

Allows applications to open network sockets.

Allows mounting and unmounting file systems for removable storage.

Allows an application to collect component usage statistics

Allows an application to read the user's calendar data.

Allows an application to read the user's call log.

Allows an application to read the user's contacts data.

Allows an application to read from external storage.

Allows read only access to phone state, including the phone number of the device, current cellular network information, the status of any ongoing calls, and a list of any PhoneAccounts registered on the device.

Allows an application to read SMS messages.

Allows an application to request installing packages. Apps targeting APIs greater than 22 must hold this permission in order to use ACTION_INSTALL_PACKAGE.

Allows using PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming.

Allows an application to write the user's calendar data.

Allows an application to write (but not read) the user's call log data.

Allows an application to write the user's contacts data.

Allows an application to write to external storage.

Allows an application to read or write the secure system settings.

Allows an application to read or write the system settings.