Back up photos & videos

About support 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 y'all are logged into your account.

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 take will be accessible across any device that you sign in to. If you edit and save a photograph on your phone, the photograph will look the aforementioned on Google Photos.
  • Fast and powerful search: You lot tin can search your photos by the people (when you've enabled face group), 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 become started

What y'all need to dorsum up photos & videos

  • Good net connection.
  • File sizes that can be backed up.  Your files won't exist 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 can be backed up.
    • Photos: .jpg, .heic, .png, .webp, .gif, and some RAW files.
    • Live photos can 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 yous endeavour to support a file blazon not listed here, it may not work with Google Photos.

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

Types of RAW files y'all can back up

Canon
EOS-1D Ten Mark III, EOS-1D X Mark Two, EOS-1D X, EOS-1Ds Mark III, EOS-1Ds Mark Ii, EOS-1D Mark IV, EOS-1D Mark III, EOS-1D Mark II, EOS-1D C, EOS-1D Mark Ii N, EOS 5D Marking IV, EOS 5D Marking 3, EOS 5D Marker Two, 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 Marking 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 Insubordinate T7i/EOS 800D), EOS Kiss X8i (EOS REBEL T6i/EOS 750D), EOS Kiss X7i (EOS Rebel T5i/EOS 700D), EOS Buss 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 Buss X7 (EOS REBEL SL1/EOS 100D), EOS Kiss 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 Insubordinate T7/EOS 2000D/EOS 1500D), EOS Buss 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 Kiss Digital X (EOS DIGITAL Rebel XTi/EOS 400D DIGITAL), EOS Osculation Digital N (EOS DIGITAL REBEL XT/EOS 350D DIGITAL), EOS Osculation Yard (EOS M50), EOS M6 Mark II, EOS M6, EOS M5, EOS M3, EOS M2, EOS M, EOS M10, EOS M200, EOS M100, PowerShot G9 Ten Marking II, PowerShot G9 Ten, PowerShot G7 X Marking Iii, PowerShot G7 X Mark Two, PowerShot G7 Ten, PowerShot G5 X Mark II, PowerShot G5 Ten, PowerShot G3 X, PowerShot G1 X Marker 3, PowerShot G1 X 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
East-M1, E-M5, East-M10, Eastward-P1, E-P2, Due east-P3, East-P5, E-PL3, E-PL5, Eastward-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 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 Mark 3, RX100 Mark Four

DNG files
All .dng files

There are 2 ways to back upwardly your phone, camera, or storage bill of fare from your reckoner:

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

Prepare 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.

Important:

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

If you already have Backup and Sync for Drive

Backup and Sync is at present Google Bulldoze for desktop.

If you already have Fill-in and Sync installed, you'll be migrated to Google Bulldoze for desktop.

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

Select a dissimilar upload size

You can change the upload size for photos and videos backed up to Google Photos from your calculator.

Of import: Yous can't change the upload size for files synced with Google Bulldoze.

Support your Apple tree Photo Library (Mac only)

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

Tips:

  • If you have more one Apple tree Photos Library, but the Organization Photograph Library will be backed up. You lot can use Apple Photos to change the System Photograph Library.
  • If your Apple tree Photo Library is synced with iCloud, all photos and videos in your library and cloud volition be backed up to Google Photos on macOS 10.fifteen and above.

Upload items to Google Photos from your browser

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

You can too elevate photos from your computer to the album to upload them to Google Photos. If you drag a photo to a specific album, the photograph 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
  • Terminate syncing Google Drive files with Fill-in and Sync
  • How your Google storage works

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