diff --git a/app/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml b/app/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml
index 9351e2ebb..b8ace1ebc 100644
--- a/app/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml
+++ b/app/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml
@@ -67,6 +67,8 @@
         android:supportsRtl="true"
         android:theme="@style/AppTheme"
         android:localeConfig="@xml/locales_config"
+        android:fullBackupContent="@xml/backup_rules_legacy"
+        android:dataExtractionRules="@xml/backup_rules"
         tools:targetApi="m">
 
         <activity android:name=".view.ui.onboarding.OnboardingActivity"
diff --git a/app/src/main/res/xml/backup_rules.xml b/app/src/main/res/xml/backup_rules.xml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..243108cf9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/src/main/res/xml/backup_rules.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<data-extraction-rules>
+    <exclude domain="file" path="Downloads/"/>
+    <exclude domain="external" path="Downloads/"/>
+</data-extraction-rules>
diff --git a/app/src/main/res/xml/backup_rules_legacy.xml b/app/src/main/res/xml/backup_rules_legacy.xml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..bfb47b7fb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/src/main/res/xml/backup_rules_legacy.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<full-backup-content>
+    <exclude domain="file" path="Downloads/"/>
+    <exclude domain="external" path="Downloads/"/>
+</full-backup-content>