Back up photos & videos

Virtually support 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 business relationship.

Benefits

  • Never lose a memory: Whatever photos you have from a device with backup enabled will be saved to your Google Business relationship.
  • Automated sync: Any edits you make or photos yous take will exist accessible beyond any device that you 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 tin 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 become started

What you need to back upwardly photos & videos

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

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

Types of RAW files you can back up

Canon
EOS-1D X Marker Iii, EOS-1D Ten Mark II, EOS-1D X, EOS-1Ds Mark III, EOS-1Ds Mark II, EOS-1D Mark 4, EOS-1D Mark III, EOS-1D Mark 2, EOS-1D C, EOS-1D Mark 2 N, EOS 5D Marker 4, EOS 5D Mark III, EOS 5D Mark II, EOS 5D, EOS 5Ds, EOS 5Ds R, EOS R5, EOS 6D Marking 2, 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 Osculation X10i (EOS Rebel T8i/EOS 850D), EOS Kiss X9i (EOS Rebel T7i/EOS 800D), EOS Kiss X8i (EOS Insubordinate T6i/EOS 750D), EOS Kiss X7i (EOS REBEL T5i/EOS 700D), EOS Kiss X6i (EOS Rebel T4i/EOS 650D), EOS Kiss X10 (EOS REBEL SL3/EOS 250D/EOS 200D II), EOS Kiss X9 (EOS Rebel SL2/EOS 200D), EOS Kiss X7 (EOS Insubordinate SL1/EOS 100D), EOS Kiss X5 (EOS REBEL T3i/EOS 600D), EOS Kiss X4 (EOS REBEL T2i/EOS 550D), EOS Kiss X3 (EOS REBEL T1i/EOS 500D), EOS Kiss X2 (EOS DIGITAL REBEL XSi/EOS 450D), EOS Buss X90 (EOS REBEL T7/EOS 2000D/EOS 1500D), EOS Osculation X80 (EOS Rebel T6/EOS 1300D), EOS Kiss X70 (EOS Insubordinate 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 Kiss Digital Northward (EOS DIGITAL Rebel XT/EOS 350D DIGITAL), EOS Osculation Thou (EOS M50), EOS M6 Mark II, EOS M6, EOS M5, EOS M3, EOS M2, EOS 1000, EOS M10, EOS M200, EOS M100, PowerShot G9 X Mark Ii, PowerShot G9 Ten, PowerShot G7 X Mark Iii, PowerShot G7 X Marker II, PowerShot G7 X, PowerShot G5 X Marker II, PowerShot G5 X, PowerShot G3 X, PowerShot G1 10 Mark 3, 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
Eastward-M1, E-M5, E-M10, E-P1, E-P2, E-P3, Due east-P5, Due east-PL3, East-PL5, E-PL7, OM-D Due east-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 Marking 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 Marker II, RX100, RX100 Mark Two, RX100 Mark III, RX100 Mark Four

DNG files
All .dng files

There are 2 means to dorsum upwardly your phone, camera, or storage menu from your estimator:

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

Ready Google Drive for desktop

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

Of import:

  • If you remove a photograph or video from your calculator that you previously backed upwardly to Google Photos, information technology stays in Google Photos.
  • If you remove a photo or video from Google Photos, information technology isn't removed from Google Drive or your computer.
  • Uploads can exist slower and employ more than storage if you support to both Google Photos and Google Bulldoze. Unless you lot need a second copy in Drive, we recommend y'all 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 yous already have Backup and Sync installed, y'all'll exist migrated to Google Drive for desktop.

To upgrade sooner, uninstall Fill-in and Sync then 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 computer.

Of import: You can't modify the upload size for files synced with Google Drive.

Dorsum up your Apple Photo Library (Mac only)

If your calculator runs macOS, y'all tin can support your System Photograph Library to Google Photos.

Tips:

  • If y'all accept more ane Apple tree Photos Library, only the System Photo Library will be backed up. Y'all can use Apple Photos to alter the Organization Photo Library.
  • If your Apple Photo Library is synced with iCloud, all photos and videos in your library and deject volition be backed up to Google Photos on macOS x.15 and above.

Upload items to Google Photos from your browser

  1. On your figurer, open up photos.google.com.
  2. At the summit right, click Upload and thenComputer.
  3. Notice and select your photos.
  4. Click Open.

Y'all can besides elevate photos from your computer to the album to upload them to Google Photos. If you lot 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, yous tin can view how yous 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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