Support photos & videos

About back up and sync

Back up and sync is a storage service that automatically saves your photos and videos to your Google Account. These photos and videos will be accessible from any device where you are logged into your account.

Benefits

  • Never lose a retentiveness: Any photos you accept from a device with backup enabled will be saved to your Google Business relationship.
  • Automatic sync: Any edits yous make or photos you have volition be accessible across whatever device that you lot sign in to. If you edit and relieve a photo on your phone, the photo will look the aforementioned on Google Photos.
  • Fast and powerful search: Y'all can search your photos by the people (when you've enabled face grouping), places, and things in them. No tagging is required.
  • Automatic creations: Bring photos to life with automatically created movies, collages, animations, and panoramas.

Before you become started

What you need to back up photos & videos

  • Practiced internet connection.
  • File sizes that tin be backed up.  Your files won't be backed up if they are:
    • Photos larger than 200 MB or 150 MP
    • Videos larger than ten GB.
    • Items smaller than 256 x 256.
  • File types that can exist backed upwards.
    • Photos: .jpg, .heic, .png, .webp, .gif, and some RAW files.
    • Alive photos can be backed up if you use the Google Photos app on your iPhone or iPad.
    • Videos: .mpg, .modern, .mmv, .tod, .wmv, .asf, .avi, .divx, .mov, .m4v, .3gp, .3g2, .mp4, .m2t, .m2ts, .mts, and .mkv files.

If you attempt to back up a file type not listed hither, information technology may not piece of work with Google Photos.

Important: Your Google Account storage is shared across multiple products like Google Photos, Google Bulldoze, and Gmail. If you lot take used all of your storage, yous won't be able to back up new files.

Types of RAW files yous tin support

Catechism
EOS-1D X Mark III, EOS-1D X Mark Two, EOS-1D X, EOS-1Ds Marking Three, EOS-1Ds Mark II, EOS-1D Mark IV, EOS-1D Mark III, EOS-1D Mark 2, EOS-1D C, EOS-1D Mark II Due north, EOS 5D Marker IV, EOS 5D Mark Iii, EOS 5D Mark 2, EOS 5D, EOS 5Ds, EOS 5Ds R, EOS R5, EOS 6D Mark 2, EOS 6D, EOS R6, EOS R, EOS Ra, EOS RP, EOS 7D Mark Two, EOS 7D, EOS 90D, EOS 80D, EOS 70D, EOS 60D, EOS 60Da, EOS 50D, EOS 40D, EOS 30D, EOS 20D, EOS 20Da, EOS 9000D (EOS 77D), EOS 8000D (EOS Rebel T6S/EOS 760D), EOS Kiss X10i (EOS Insubordinate T8i/EOS 850D), EOS Kiss X9i (EOS REBEL T7i/EOS 800D), EOS Kiss X8i (EOS REBEL T6i/EOS 750D), EOS Buss X7i (EOS REBEL T5i/EOS 700D), EOS Kiss X6i (EOS Rebel T4i/EOS 650D), EOS Kiss X10 (EOS Insubordinate SL3/EOS 250D/EOS 200D II), EOS Osculation X9 (EOS REBEL SL2/EOS 200D), EOS Buss X7 (EOS REBEL SL1/EOS 100D), EOS Kiss X5 (EOS Rebel T3i/EOS 600D), EOS Kiss X4 (EOS Rebel T2i/EOS 550D), EOS Osculation X3 (EOS REBEL T1i/EOS 500D), EOS Kiss X2 (EOS DIGITAL REBEL XSi/EOS 450D), EOS Kiss X90 (EOS Rebel T7/EOS 2000D/EOS 1500D), EOS Kiss X80 (EOS REBEL T6/EOS 1300D), EOS Kiss X70 (EOS Insubordinate T5/EOS 1200D), EOS Buss X50 (EOS REBEL T3/EOS 1100D), EOS Kiss F (EOS DIGITAL Insubordinate XS/EOS 1000D), EOS Kiss Digital Ten (EOS DIGITAL REBEL XTi/EOS 400D DIGITAL), EOS Buss Digital Northward (EOS DIGITAL Rebel XT/EOS 350D DIGITAL), EOS Kiss Grand (EOS M50), EOS M6 Marker II, EOS M6, EOS M5, EOS M3, EOS M2, EOS M, EOS M10, EOS M200, EOS M100, PowerShot G9 X Mark 2, PowerShot G9 X, PowerShot G7 X Mark 3, PowerShot G7 X Marker Two, PowerShot G7 X, PowerShot G5 X Mark Ii, PowerShot G5 10, PowerShot G3 X, PowerShot G1 X Mark III, PowerShot G1 X Mark II, PowerShot G1 10, PowerShot G16, PowerShot G15, PowerShot G12, PowerShot G11, PowerShot G10, PowerShot S120, PowerShot S110, PowerShot S100, PowerShot S95, PowerShot S90, PowerShot SX70 HS, PowerShot SX60 HS, PowerShot SX50 HS, PowerShot SX1 IS

Fuji
X100

Nikon
1AW1, 1J1, 1J2, 1J3, 1J4, 1S1, 1S2, 1V1, 1V2, 1V3, D3, D3X, D4, D4S, D40, D40X, D50, D60, D70, D70s, D80, D90, D200, D300, D300s, D600, D610, D700, D750, D800, D800E, D810, D3000, D3100, D3200, D3300, D5000, D5100, D5200, D5300, D5500, D7000, D7100, D7200, Df
Coolpix: A, P7800

Olympus
E-M1, Eastward-M5, E-M10, E-P1, East-P2, Eastward-P3, E-P5, E-PL3, Eastward-PL5, E-PL7, OM-D E-M5 Marker Two

Panasonic
CM1, FZ300, G70, GF1, GF3, GF5, GF7, GH3, GH4, GM1, GM5, GX1, GX8, LX5, LX7, LX100

Sony
A7, A7R, A7S, A7 Mark II, A55, A58, A65, A77, A77 Mark II, A99, A700, A3000, A5000, A5100, A6000, QX1, NEX-v, NEX-5N, NEX-5R, NEX-6, NEX-7, NEX-C3, NEX-F3, RX1, RX1R, RX10, RX10 Mark II, RX100, RX100 Mark 2, RX100 Mark III, RX100 Mark Four

DNG files
All .dng files

There are two ways to back up your telephone, camera, or storage card from your computer:

  1. Install Backup and Sync.
  2. Upload photos from your browser.

Set upwards Google Bulldoze for desktop

  1. On your reckoner, download and install Google Drive for Desktop.
  2. Sign in to your Google Business relationship.
  3. Select the folders or pictures you want to back up and thenBack upwardly to Google Photos.
  4. Select Done and thenSave.

Important:

  • If you remove a photo or video from your computer that you previously backed up to Google Photos, it stays in Google Photos.
  • If you remove a photo or video from Google Photos, it isn't removed from Google Drive or your computer.
  • Uploads can exist slower and use more storage if yous support to both Google Photos and Google Drive. Unless you lot demand a second copy in Drive, we recommend you back up photos and videos to Google Photos.

If you already have Fill-in and Sync for Drive

Backup and Sync is at present Google Drive for desktop.

If you already have Backup and Sync installed, you lot'll be migrated to Google Drive for desktop.

To upgrade sooner, uninstall Backup and Sync and so follow the steps above to set up Google Drive for desktop.

Select a different upload size

You can change the upload size for photos and videos backed up to Google Photos from your reckoner.

Important: You can't change the upload size for files synced with Google Drive.

Back upwards your Apple Photo Library (Mac simply)

If your reckoner runs macOS, you can back up your Arrangement Photograph Library to Google Photos.

Tips:

  • If you accept more than one Apple tree Photos Library, only the System Photograph Library volition be backed up. You can use Apple Photos to alter the System Photo Library.
  • If your Apple Photograph Library is synced with iCloud, all photos and videos in your library and deject will exist backed up to Google Photos on macOS 10.15 and in a higher place.

Upload items to Google Photos from your browser

  1. On your calculator, open photos.google.com.
  2. At the tiptop correct, click Upload and thenComputer.
  3. Notice and select your photos.
  4. Click Open.

You can besides drag photos from your computer to the album to upload them to Google Photos. If you drag a photo to a specific album, the photo will be uploaded to that anthology.

View where your photos & videos were uploaded from

In Google Photos, you can view how yous uploaded your photos and videos.

Related resource

  • Download photos or videos to your device
  • Stop syncing Google Drive files with Backup and Sync
  • How your Google storage works

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