Back up photos & videos

Nearly back up and sync

Support and sync is a storage service that automatically saves your photos and videos to your Google Account. These photos and videos volition be accessible from any device where yous are logged into your account.

Benefits

  • Never lose a retentiveness: Whatever photos y'all have from a device with backup enabled will be saved to your Google Business relationship.
  • Automated sync: Any edits you make or photos you take will be accessible across whatsoever device that you sign in to. If you edit and save a photo on your phone, the photo will wait the same on Google Photos.
  • Fast and powerful search: You tin can search your photos by the people (when you've enabled face up grouping), places, and things in them. No tagging is required.
  • Automatic creations: Bring photos to life with automatically created movies, collages, animations, and panoramas.

Earlier you get started

What you demand to dorsum up photos & videos

  • Good internet connection.
  • File sizes that tin can exist backed up.  Your files won't be backed up if they are:
    • Photos larger than 200 MB or 150 MP
    • Videos larger than 10 GB.
    • Items smaller than 256 x 256.
  • File types that tin be backed up.
    • Photos: .jpg, .heic, .png, .webp, .gif, and some RAW files.
    • Live photos can be backed upwards if you lot use the Google Photos app on your iPhone or iPad.
    • Videos: .mpg, .mod, .mmv, .tod, .wmv, .asf, .avi, .divx, .mov, .m4v, .3gp, .3g2, .mp4, .m2t, .m2ts, .mts, and .mkv files.

If you lot endeavor to support a file type non listed hither, it may not work with Google Photos.

Of import: Your Google Account storage is shared across multiple products like Google Photos, Google Bulldoze, and Gmail. If y'all have used all of your storage, you won't be able to support new files.

Types of RAW files you tin dorsum up

Canon
EOS-1D X Marker III, EOS-1D 10 Mark II, EOS-1D X, EOS-1Ds Mark Three, EOS-1Ds Mark II, EOS-1D Mark 4, EOS-1D Marker III, EOS-1D Mark Ii, EOS-1D C, EOS-1D Mark 2 N, EOS 5D Mark Iv, EOS 5D Marking 3, EOS 5D Mark Ii, EOS 5D, EOS 5Ds, EOS 5Ds R, EOS R5, EOS 6D Mark Two, EOS 6D, EOS R6, EOS R, EOS Ra, EOS RP, EOS 7D Mark Ii, 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 Buss X10i (EOS REBEL T8i/EOS 850D), EOS Kiss X9i (EOS Insubordinate T7i/EOS 800D), EOS Kiss X8i (EOS Rebel T6i/EOS 750D), EOS Kiss X7i (EOS Insubordinate T5i/EOS 700D), EOS Kiss X6i (EOS REBEL T4i/EOS 650D), EOS Kiss X10 (EOS REBEL SL3/EOS 250D/EOS 200D II), EOS Buss X9 (EOS Rebel SL2/EOS 200D), EOS Kiss X7 (EOS REBEL SL1/EOS 100D), EOS Kiss X5 (EOS Insubordinate T3i/EOS 600D), EOS Kiss X4 (EOS REBEL T2i/EOS 550D), EOS Kiss X3 (EOS REBEL T1i/EOS 500D), EOS Kiss X2 (EOS DIGITAL Insubordinate XSi/EOS 450D), EOS Osculation X90 (EOS REBEL T7/EOS 2000D/EOS 1500D), EOS Osculation X80 (EOS Insubordinate T6/EOS 1300D), EOS Kiss X70 (EOS Insubordinate T5/EOS 1200D), EOS Kiss X50 (EOS Insubordinate T3/EOS 1100D), EOS Osculation F (EOS DIGITAL Rebel XS/EOS 1000D), EOS Kiss Digital X (EOS DIGITAL REBEL XTi/EOS 400D DIGITAL), EOS Kiss Digital N (EOS DIGITAL Insubordinate XT/EOS 350D DIGITAL), EOS Kiss 1000 (EOS M50), EOS M6 Mark II, EOS M6, EOS M5, EOS M3, EOS M2, EOS M, EOS M10, EOS M200, EOS M100, PowerShot G9 Ten Mark II, PowerShot G9 Ten, PowerShot G7 X Marker 3, PowerShot G7 X Mark Ii, PowerShot G7 X, PowerShot G5 X Mark Two, PowerShot G5 X, PowerShot G3 10, PowerShot G1 Ten Mark III, PowerShot G1 Ten Marking II, PowerShot G1 X, 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, E-M5, E-M10, E-P1, E-P2, E-P3, East-P5, E-PL3, E-PL5, E-PL7, OM-D E-M5 Marker Ii

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

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

DNG files
All .dng files

In that location are 2 means to back up your phone, photographic camera, or storage menu from your computer:

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

Ready up Google Drive for desktop

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

Important:

  • If you remove a photo or video from your computer that yous previously backed up to Google Photos, it stays in Google Photos.
  • If y'all remove a photo or video from Google Photos, it isn't removed from Google Drive or your computer.
  • Uploads can be slower and utilize more than storage if you dorsum up to both Google Photos and Google Bulldoze. Unless you demand a 2nd copy in Drive, we recommend you lot support photos and videos to Google Photos.

If you already have Backup and Sync for Drive

Backup and Sync is at present Google Drive for desktop.

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

To upgrade sooner, uninstall Backup and Sync and and then follow the steps above to prepare Google Drive for desktop.

Select a different upload size

Y'all can modify the upload size for photos and videos backed up to Google Photos from your computer.

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

Back upwards your Apple tree Photo Library (Mac merely)

If your computer runs macOS, you lot tin back up your System Photo Library to Google Photos.

Tips:

  • If you take more than than 1 Apple tree Photos Library, only the Organization Photo Library will exist backed upward. You can use Apple Photos to alter the System Photo Library.
  • If your Apple Photo Library is synced with iCloud, all photos and videos in your library and cloud will be backed up to Google Photos on macOS ten.fifteen and to a higher place.

Upload items to Google Photos from your browser

  1. On your figurer, open up photos.google.com.
  2. At the tiptop correct, click Upload and thenFigurer.
  3. Find and select your photos.
  4. Click Open up.

Y'all tin can also elevate photos from your estimator to the album to upload them to Google Photos. If yous elevate a photo to a specific album, the photo will be uploaded to that album.

View where your photos & videos were uploaded from

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

Related resources

  • 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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