Back up photos & videos

About 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 will be accessible from any device where you lot are logged into your business relationship.

Benefits

  • Never lose a memory: Whatsoever photos you take from a device with backup enabled will be saved to your Google Account.
  • Automatic sync: Any edits you lot make or photos you take will be accessible across any device that you sign in to. If you edit and save a photo on your phone, the photo will look the aforementioned on Google Photos.
  • Fast and powerful search: You 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.

Earlier you get started

What you lot demand to support photos & videos

  • Proficient net connexion.
  • File sizes that can be backed up.  Your files won't be backed upward 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 can exist backed upwards.
    • Photos: .jpg, .heic, .png, .webp, .gif, and some RAW files.
    • Live photos tin be backed up if you 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 try to back up a file type not listed hither, it may not work with Google Photos.

Important: Your Google Business relationship storage is shared beyond multiple products similar Google Photos, Google Drive, and Gmail. If you lot accept used all of your storage, you won't be able to back up new files.

Types of RAW files you can dorsum up

Canon
EOS-1D Ten Mark Three, EOS-1D X Marking II, EOS-1D 10, EOS-1Ds Mark 3, EOS-1Ds Mark 2, EOS-1D Mark 4, EOS-1D Marking III, EOS-1D Marking II, EOS-1D C, EOS-1D Marking Two Due north, EOS 5D Marker IV, EOS 5D Mark III, EOS 5D Mark II, EOS 5D, EOS 5Ds, EOS 5Ds R, EOS R5, EOS 6D Mark II, 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 Kiss X10i (EOS REBEL T8i/EOS 850D), EOS Kiss X9i (EOS Insubordinate T7i/EOS 800D), EOS Kiss X8i (EOS REBEL T6i/EOS 750D), EOS Osculation X7i (EOS Rebel T5i/EOS 700D), EOS Kiss X6i (EOS Insubordinate T4i/EOS 650D), EOS Buss X10 (EOS Insubordinate SL3/EOS 250D/EOS 200D 2), EOS Kiss X9 (EOS REBEL SL2/EOS 200D), EOS Kiss X7 (EOS REBEL SL1/EOS 100D), EOS Kiss X5 (EOS Rebel T3i/EOS 600D), EOS Osculation X4 (EOS Rebel T2i/EOS 550D), EOS Buss X3 (EOS REBEL T1i/EOS 500D), EOS Buss X2 (EOS DIGITAL Rebel XSi/EOS 450D), EOS Buss X90 (EOS Insubordinate T7/EOS 2000D/EOS 1500D), EOS Buss X80 (EOS Insubordinate T6/EOS 1300D), EOS Kiss X70 (EOS Rebel T5/EOS 1200D), EOS Kiss X50 (EOS Rebel T3/EOS 1100D), EOS Kiss F (EOS DIGITAL Rebel XS/EOS 1000D), EOS Kiss Digital X (EOS DIGITAL Rebel XTi/EOS 400D DIGITAL), EOS Buss Digital Northward (EOS DIGITAL Rebel XT/EOS 350D DIGITAL), EOS Kiss Yard (EOS M50), EOS M6 Marker II, EOS M6, EOS M5, EOS M3, EOS M2, EOS K, EOS M10, EOS M200, EOS M100, PowerShot G9 X Mark II, PowerShot G9 X, PowerShot G7 X Mark III, PowerShot G7 X Mark II, PowerShot G7 X, PowerShot G5 X Marking II, PowerShot G5 X, PowerShot G3 X, PowerShot G1 10 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
Due east-M1, E-M5, E-M10, Eastward-P1, Due east-P2, E-P3, E-P5, East-PL3, East-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 Marking Two, A55, A58, A65, A77, A77 Mark II, A99, A700, A3000, A5000, A5100, A6000, QX1, NEX-5, NEX-5N, NEX-5R, NEX-6, NEX-7, NEX-C3, NEX-F3, RX1, RX1R, RX10, RX10 Marker Two, RX100, RX100 Mark II, RX100 Marker III, RX100 Marking IV

DNG files
All .dng files

In that location are ii ways to support your telephone, camera, or storage bill of fare from your computer:

  1. Install Fill-in and Sync.
  2. Upload photos from your browser.

Gear up upwards Google Drive for desktop

  1. On your estimator, download and install Google Bulldoze for Desktop.
  2. Sign in to your Google Account.
  3. Select the folders or pictures you want to back upwards and thenDorsum upwards to Google Photos.
  4. Select Done and thenSalvage.

Important:

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

If you already have Backup and Sync for Drive

Backup and Sync is now Google Drive for desktop.

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

To upgrade sooner, uninstall Backup and Sync and then follow the steps in a higher place to fix up Google Bulldoze for desktop.

Select a different upload size

You tin can change 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 upwardly your Apple Photograph Library (Mac but)

If your reckoner runs macOS, you can support your Organisation Photo Library to Google Photos.

Tips:

  • If you have more than i Apple tree Photos Library, but the System Photo Library volition be backed upwards. You tin utilize Apple Photos to modify 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 10.15 and above.

Upload items to Google Photos from your browser

  1. On your estimator, open up photos.google.com.
  2. At the height right, click Upload and thenComputer.
  3. Find and select your photos.
  4. Click Open.

Y'all can also drag photos from your computer to the album to upload them to Google Photos. If you drag a photograph to a specific anthology, the photo volition be uploaded to that album.

View where your photos & videos were uploaded from

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

Related resources

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

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