Back up photos & videos

Virtually support 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 exist accessible from any device where y'all are logged into your account.

Benefits

  • Never lose a retentivity: Any photos you have from a device with backup enabled will exist saved to your Google Account.
  • Automated sync: Any edits y'all make or photos you have will be accessible beyond any device that you sign in to. If you edit and save a photo on your phone, the photo volition expect the aforementioned on Google Photos.
  • Fast and powerful search: You lot tin can search your photos by the people (when yous've enabled face grouping), places, and things in them. No tagging is required.
  • Automated creations: Bring photos to life with automatically created movies, collages, animations, and panoramas.

Before you get started

What you lot need to dorsum upwardly photos & videos

  • Good internet connexion.
  • File sizes that can be backed up.  Your files won't be backed up if they are:
    • Photos larger than 200 MB or 150 MP
    • Videos larger than ten GB.
    • Items smaller than 256 ten 256.
  • File types that tin exist backed upward.
    • Photos: .jpg, .heic, .png, .webp, .gif, and some RAW files.
    • Live photos tin exist backed up if y'all 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 Account storage is shared across multiple products similar Google Photos, Google Drive, and Gmail. If you have used all of your storage, you won't be able to back up new files.

Types of RAW files you can dorsum upwardly

Canon
EOS-1D X Marker III, EOS-1D 10 Mark Two, EOS-1D X, EOS-1Ds Mark 3, EOS-1Ds Mark Ii, EOS-1D Mark IV, EOS-1D Mark III, EOS-1D Marker II, EOS-1D C, EOS-1D Mark Ii Due north, EOS 5D Marker Four, EOS 5D Mark Iii, 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 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 Buss X10i (EOS Insubordinate T8i/EOS 850D), EOS Kiss X9i (EOS REBEL 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 Kiss X9 (EOS REBEL SL2/EOS 200D), EOS Osculation X7 (EOS Insubordinate SL1/EOS 100D), EOS Kiss X5 (EOS REBEL T3i/EOS 600D), EOS Kiss X4 (EOS REBEL T2i/EOS 550D), EOS Buss X3 (EOS REBEL T1i/EOS 500D), EOS Kiss X2 (EOS DIGITAL Rebel XSi/EOS 450D), EOS Kiss X90 (EOS Insubordinate T7/EOS 2000D/EOS 1500D), EOS Kiss X80 (EOS Rebel T6/EOS 1300D), EOS Kiss X70 (EOS REBEL T5/EOS 1200D), EOS Kiss X50 (EOS REBEL T3/EOS 1100D), EOS Osculation F (EOS DIGITAL Insubordinate 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 Chiliad (EOS M50), EOS M6 Mark II, EOS M6, EOS M5, EOS M3, EOS M2, EOS M, EOS M10, EOS M200, EOS M100, PowerShot G9 X Mark Two, PowerShot G9 X, PowerShot G7 X Mark III, PowerShot G7 X Marker II, PowerShot G7 X, PowerShot G5 X Mark II, PowerShot G5 Ten, 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
E-M1, E-M5, E-M10, E-P1, E-P2, Due east-P3, E-P5, Eastward-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 Mark II, A55, A58, A65, A77, A77 Mark 2, A99, A700, A3000, A5000, A5100, A6000, QX1, NEX-five, NEX-5N, NEX-5R, NEX-six, NEX-7, NEX-C3, NEX-F3, RX1, RX1R, RX10, RX10 Mark 2, RX100, RX100 Mark 2, RX100 Mark III, RX100 Marker IV

DNG files
All .dng files

There are two ways to back upward your phone, camera, or storage carte du jour from your figurer:

  1. Install Fill-in 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 Account.
  3. Select the folders or pictures you want to back up and thenBack up to Google Photos.
  4. Select Done and thenSave.

Of import:

  • If you remove a photo or video from your estimator that you previously backed up 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 tin can be slower and use more than storage if you lot support to both Google Photos and Google Drive. Unless you need a second copy in Bulldoze, we recommend you back upwards photos and videos to Google Photos.

If you already have Backup and Sync for Bulldoze

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 Fill-in and Sync and then follow the steps in a higher place to set upward Google Bulldoze for desktop.

Select a unlike upload size

You lot can alter the upload size for photos and videos backed upwardly to Google Photos from your computer.

Important: Y'all can't alter the upload size for files synced with Google Drive.

Back upwards your Apple Photo Library (Mac only)

If your computer runs macOS, you tin can support your Organization Photo Library to Google Photos.

Tips:

  • If you have more than one Apple Photos Library, only the System Photo Library will be backed upwards. You tin can employ Apple Photos to change the System Photo Library.
  • If your Apple Photograph Library is synced with iCloud, all photos and videos in your library and cloud will be backed upward to Google Photos on macOS 10.xv and to a higher place.

Upload items to Google Photos from your browser

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

You lot can also drag photos from your computer to the album to upload them to Google Photos. If you drag 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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