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 Business relationship. These photos and videos will exist attainable from any device where you are logged into your account.

Benefits

  • Never lose a memory: Any photos you take from a device with backup enabled will exist saved to your Google Account.
  • Automatic sync: Any edits yous brand or photos yous take will be accessible beyond whatever device that y'all sign in to. If you edit and save a photo on your phone, the photo will look the same on Google Photos.
  • Fast and powerful search: Y'all tin can search your photos by the people (when yous'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 yous get started

What you need 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 ten 256.
  • File types that tin exist backed up.
    • Photos: .jpg, .heic, .png, .webp, .gif, and some RAW files.
    • Live photos can be backed up if you employ 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 y'all attempt to back up a file blazon not listed here, it may not work with Google Photos.

Important: Your Google Business relationship storage is shared beyond multiple products like Google Photos, Google Drive, and Gmail. If you have used all of your storage, yous won't be able to support new files.

Types of RAW files you can back up

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

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

Sony
A7, A7R, A7S, A7 Mark 2, A55, A58, A65, A77, A77 Marker 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 Marking II, RX100, RX100 Mark Ii, RX100 Marking III, RX100 Mark 4

DNG files
All .dng files

There are 2 ways to back up your phone, camera, or storage card from your computer:

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

Set up Google Drive for desktop

  1. On your computer, 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 upward and thenSupport to Google Photos.
  4. Select Done and thenSave.

Of import:

  • If you remove a photograph or video from your computer that you lot previously backed up to Google Photos, it stays in Google Photos.
  • If you remove a photograph or video from Google Photos, it isn't removed from Google Drive or your figurer.
  • Uploads tin can be slower and use more than storage if y'all back up to both Google Photos and Google Drive. Unless you lot need a second copy in Bulldoze, we recommend you back up photos and videos to Google Photos.

If you lot already have Fill-in and Sync for Drive

Fill-in and Sync is now Google Drive for desktop.

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

To upgrade sooner, uninstall Fill-in and Sync and so follow the steps above to fix Google Bulldoze for desktop.

Select a different upload size

Yous can alter the upload size for photos and videos backed up to Google Photos from your figurer.

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

Back up your Apple Photograph Library (Mac only)

If your computer runs macOS, y'all can back up your Arrangement Photo Library to Google Photos.

Tips:

  • If yous have more 1 Apple Photos Library, only the System Photograph Library will exist backed up. You can utilize Apple tree Photos to change the Arrangement Photo Library.
  • If your Apple Photo Library is synced with iCloud, all photos and videos in your library and deject will be backed upwards to Google Photos on macOS 10.15 and higher up.

Upload items to Google Photos from your browser

  1. On your calculator, open up photos.google.com.
  2. At the top right, click Upload and thenCalculator.
  3. Find and select your photos.
  4. Click Open.

You lot can as well drag photos from your computer to the album to upload them to Google Photos. If you lot elevate a photo to a specific anthology, the photograph volition exist uploaded to that album.

View where your photos & videos were uploaded from

In Google Photos, you lot tin view how y'all 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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