Back up 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 Account. These photos and videos will be accessible from any device where you are logged into your business relationship.

Benefits

  • Never lose a memory: Any photos you accept from a device with fill-in enabled will be saved to your Google Account.
  • Automatic sync: Any edits you make or photos y'all take will be accessible across any device that you sign in to. If you lot edit and save a photograph on your phone, the photograph will expect the aforementioned on Google Photos.
  • Fast and powerful search: You can search your photos by the people (when you'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 yous need to back up photos & videos

  • Skillful net connection.
  • File sizes that can be 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 x 256.
  • File types that can exist 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 attempt to back upwards a file type not listed here, it may not work with Google Photos.

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

Types of RAW files you can back up

Canon
EOS-1D X Marker Iii, EOS-1D X Mark II, EOS-1D X, EOS-1Ds Marker 3, EOS-1Ds Mark Two, EOS-1D Mark Iv, EOS-1D Mark Iii, EOS-1D Mark II, EOS-1D C, EOS-1D Marking II Due north, EOS 5D Marker Iv, EOS 5D Marking Three, EOS 5D Mark II, EOS 5D, EOS 5Ds, EOS 5Ds R, EOS R5, EOS 6D Marker 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 Insubordinate T6S/EOS 760D), EOS Osculation X10i (EOS REBEL T8i/EOS 850D), EOS Kiss X9i (EOS Rebel T7i/EOS 800D), EOS Osculation 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 Buss X7 (EOS Rebel SL1/EOS 100D), EOS Buss 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 Kiss X90 (EOS Rebel T7/EOS 2000D/EOS 1500D), EOS Buss X80 (EOS Insubordinate 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 Kiss M (EOS M50), EOS M6 Marker II, EOS M6, EOS M5, EOS M3, EOS M2, EOS K, EOS M10, EOS M200, EOS M100, PowerShot G9 Ten Marker II, PowerShot G9 10, PowerShot G7 10 Marker 3, PowerShot G7 Ten Marking 2, PowerShot G7 Ten, PowerShot G5 X Marking Two, PowerShot G5 Ten, PowerShot G3 10, PowerShot G1 Ten Mark Iii, PowerShot G1 Ten 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
Due east-M1, Due east-M5, Eastward-M10, E-P1, E-P2, E-P3, E-P5, Eastward-PL3, E-PL5, East-PL7, OM-D Due east-M5 Marking Two

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

Sony
A7, A7R, A7S, A7 Marking Ii, A55, A58, A65, A77, A77 Marker Ii, A99, A700, A3000, A5000, A5100, A6000, QX1, NEX-five, NEX-5N, NEX-5R, NEX-6, NEX-7, NEX-C3, NEX-F3, RX1, RX1R, RX10, RX10 Mark Ii, RX100, RX100 Mark 2, RX100 Mark III, RX100 Mark IV

DNG files
All .dng files

In that location are two ways to support your phone, photographic camera, or storage carte du jour from your figurer:

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

Set upward 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 lot want to support and thenBack upwardly to Google Photos.
  4. Select Done and thenSave.

Important:

  • If you remove a photo or video from your figurer that yous 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 utilise more storage if you dorsum 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 Bulldoze

Backup and Sync is at present Google Bulldoze for desktop.

If you lot 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 dissimilar upload size

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

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

Back up your Apple Photo Library (Mac only)

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

Tips:

  • If y'all have more than than i Apple Photos Library, simply the System Photo Library will be backed upwardly. You tin use 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 upwards to Google Photos on macOS x.xv and above.

Upload items to Google Photos from your browser

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

You tin also drag photos from your figurer to the anthology to upload them to Google Photos. If you drag a photo to a specific anthology, the photo will be uploaded to that album.

View where your photos & videos were uploaded from

In Google Photos, you lot tin can view how you uploaded your photos and videos.

Related resource

  • 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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