Support photos & videos

About back up and sync

Back upwards 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 business relationship.

Benefits

  • Never lose a retentivity: Any photos you take from a device with backup enabled will be saved to your Google Account.
  • Automatic sync: Any edits you make or photos you lot take will exist accessible across any device that y'all sign in to. If you edit and save a photo on your telephone, the photo will look the same 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.

Earlier y'all go started

What yous need to support photos & videos

  • Good cyberspace connection.
  • File sizes that tin exist backed upwards.  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 can be 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 you lot try to back upwardly a file type not listed here, it may not piece of work with Google Photos.

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

Types of RAW files you can back up

Canon
EOS-1D Ten Marker III, EOS-1D X Marking II, EOS-1D 10, EOS-1Ds Mark Iii, EOS-1Ds Mark Two, EOS-1D Mark Four, EOS-1D Marker Iii, EOS-1D Mark II, EOS-1D C, EOS-1D Mark Ii N, EOS 5D Mark IV, EOS 5D Mark III, EOS 5D Mark Ii, EOS 5D, EOS 5Ds, EOS 5Ds R, EOS R5, EOS 6D Marking Two, EOS 6D, EOS R6, EOS R, EOS Ra, EOS RP, EOS 7D Mark 2, 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 Rebel T7i/EOS 800D), EOS Kiss X8i (EOS Rebel T6i/EOS 750D), EOS Kiss X7i (EOS REBEL T5i/EOS 700D), EOS Kiss X6i (EOS REBEL T4i/EOS 650D), EOS Buss X10 (EOS Insubordinate SL3/EOS 250D/EOS 200D Two), EOS Kiss X9 (EOS REBEL SL2/EOS 200D), EOS Kiss X7 (EOS REBEL SL1/EOS 100D), EOS Buss X5 (EOS REBEL T3i/EOS 600D), EOS Kiss X4 (EOS Insubordinate T2i/EOS 550D), EOS Kiss X3 (EOS REBEL T1i/EOS 500D), EOS Buss X2 (EOS DIGITAL REBEL XSi/EOS 450D), EOS Kiss X90 (EOS REBEL T7/EOS 2000D/EOS 1500D), EOS Osculation X80 (EOS Rebel 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 Osculation Digital X (EOS DIGITAL Rebel XTi/EOS 400D DIGITAL), EOS Kiss Digital Northward (EOS DIGITAL REBEL XT/EOS 350D DIGITAL), EOS Osculation K (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 2, PowerShot G9 X, PowerShot G7 Ten Marker III, PowerShot G7 X Mark 2, PowerShot G7 10, PowerShot G5 X Mark II, PowerShot G5 X, PowerShot G3 X, PowerShot G1 X Mark Iii, PowerShot G1 X Mark 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
East-M1, E-M5, East-M10, E-P1, Due east-P2, East-P3, E-P5, E-PL3, Eastward-PL5, E-PL7, OM-D E-M5 Marking II

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-5, NEX-5N, NEX-5R, NEX-6, NEX-7, NEX-C3, NEX-F3, RX1, RX1R, RX10, RX10 Mark 2, RX100, RX100 Mark II, RX100 Marker Three, RX100 Mark Iv

DNG files
All .dng files

There are 2 ways to back up your phone, photographic camera, or storage carte from your calculator:

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

Prepare up Google Bulldoze for desktop

  1. On your estimator, download and install Google Drive for Desktop.
  2. Sign in to your Google Account.
  3. Select the folders or pictures yous desire to back upward and thenBack up to Google Photos.
  4. Select Washed and thenSalvage.

Important:

  • If you remove a photo or video from your estimator 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 Bulldoze or your computer.
  • Uploads can be slower and use more storage if yous back upward to both Google Photos and Google Drive. Unless you need a second copy in Drive, we recommend y'all dorsum up photos and videos to Google Photos.

If you already accept Fill-in and Sync for Drive

Fill-in and Sync is at present 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 above to gear up Google Drive for desktop.

Select a unlike upload size

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

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

Dorsum upward your Apple Photo Library (Mac only)

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

Tips:

  • If you take more 1 Apple Photos Library, only the System Photograph Library will be backed up. You tin utilise Apple Photos to change 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.15 and above.

Upload items to Google Photos from your browser

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

You tin can also drag photos from your reckoner to the album to upload them to Google Photos. If y'all drag a photo to a specific album, the photograph will exist uploaded to that anthology.

View where your photos & videos were uploaded from

In Google Photos, you tin 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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