For years, Android's cloud safety net caught photos and messages but let locally stored documents fall through — a quiet vulnerability that millions of users rarely noticed until disaster struck. Google is now closing that gap, rolling out automatic nightly backups of local files to Google Drive as part of its latest Play Services update. The feature arrives not as a seamless synchronization tool, but as a kind of digital insurance policy: imperfect, bounded by storage limits and limited controls, yet meaningfully better than the silence that preceded it.