# Why can I not pick a Google Drive folder on Android?

The Google Drive app does not offer its folders to the Android folder picker, so no app can write into Drive that way. Folders on your phone, on an SD card, and in apps that do offer folders, such as Nextcloud, work.

To get your backups into Google Drive anyway, pick a folder on your phone and let a sync app copy that folder to Drive. The backup files are encrypted with your phrase key, so [they are safe in Drive](https://privacynotes.app/help/backup-cloud-folder).

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Source: https://privacynotes.app/help/backup-google-drive-android