Support photos & videos

Well-nigh 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 attainable from any device where you lot are logged into your account.

Benefits

  • Never lose a memory: Whatsoever photos you have 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 volition be accessible across any device that you sign in to. If you edit and save a photo on your phone, the photo will await the same on Google Photos.
  • Fast and powerful search: You can search your photos past 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 get started

What you need to support photos & videos

  • Good cyberspace connection.
  • File sizes that can exist backed upward.  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 10 256.
  • File types that can be backed upwards.
    • Photos: .jpg, .heic, .png, .webp, .gif, and some RAW files.
    • Live photos can exist backed up if y'all use the Google Photos app on your iPhone or iPad.
    • Videos: .mpg, .modern, .mmv, .tod, .wmv, .asf, .avi, .divx, .mov, .m4v, .3gp, .3g2, .mp4, .m2t, .m2ts, .mts, and .mkv files.

If you endeavor to support a file blazon not listed here, information technology may not work with Google Photos.

Important: Your Google Business relationship storage is shared across multiple products similar Google Photos, Google Drive, and Gmail. If you have used all of your storage, y'all won't be able to back up new files.

Types of RAW files you tin back upwardly

Canon
EOS-1D Ten Mark III, EOS-1D 10 Mark 2, EOS-1D X, EOS-1Ds Mark III, EOS-1Ds Mark II, EOS-1D Mark Iv, EOS-1D Mark III, EOS-1D Mark Two, EOS-1D C, EOS-1D Mark II Northward, EOS 5D Mark Iv, EOS 5D Mark III, EOS 5D Mark II, 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 Kiss X10i (EOS REBEL T8i/EOS 850D), EOS Osculation X9i (EOS Rebel T7i/EOS 800D), EOS Osculation X8i (EOS REBEL 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 REBEL SL1/EOS 100D), EOS Kiss X5 (EOS Rebel T3i/EOS 600D), EOS Kiss X4 (EOS REBEL T2i/EOS 550D), EOS Kiss X3 (EOS Insubordinate T1i/EOS 500D), EOS Kiss X2 (EOS DIGITAL REBEL XSi/EOS 450D), EOS Osculation X90 (EOS REBEL T7/EOS 2000D/EOS 1500D), EOS Kiss X80 (EOS Rebel T6/EOS 1300D), EOS Osculation X70 (EOS Rebel T5/EOS 1200D), EOS Osculation X50 (EOS REBEL T3/EOS 1100D), EOS Osculation F (EOS DIGITAL REBEL XS/EOS 1000D), EOS Kiss Digital X (EOS DIGITAL Insubordinate XTi/EOS 400D DIGITAL), EOS Kiss Digital Northward (EOS DIGITAL REBEL XT/EOS 350D DIGITAL), EOS Kiss 1000 (EOS M50), EOS M6 Mark Two, EOS M6, EOS M5, EOS M3, EOS M2, EOS M, EOS M10, EOS M200, EOS M100, PowerShot G9 10 Mark II, PowerShot G9 10, PowerShot G7 X Mark III, PowerShot G7 X Marking 2, PowerShot G7 10, PowerShot G5 X Mark Two, PowerShot G5 X, PowerShot G3 X, PowerShot G1 X 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, East-P3, E-P5, E-PL3, Due east-PL5, Eastward-PL7, OM-D E-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 Marker Two, A55, A58, A65, A77, A77 Mark II, A99, A700, A3000, A5000, A5100, A6000, QX1, NEX-five, NEX-5N, NEX-5R, NEX-half-dozen, NEX-7, NEX-C3, NEX-F3, RX1, RX1R, RX10, RX10 Mark II, RX100, RX100 Mark Two, RX100 Marker III, RX100 Marker Iv

DNG files
All .dng files

There are 2 ways to back up your telephone, photographic camera, or storage menu from your computer:

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

Gear up Google Bulldoze for desktop

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

Important:

  • If yous remove a photo or video from your figurer that you lot previously backed up to Google Photos, information technology 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 you dorsum up to both Google Photos and Google Drive. Unless you need a 2nd copy in Drive, nosotros recommend y'all back up photos and videos to Google Photos.

If you already accept Backup and Sync for Drive

Backup and Sync is now Google Drive for desktop.

If you lot 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 so follow the steps above to prepare up Google Drive for desktop.

Select a dissimilar upload size

Yous tin can change the upload size for photos and videos backed up to Google Photos from your estimator.

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

Back up your Apple Photo Library (Mac only)

If your estimator runs macOS, yous tin can support your Organization Photo Library to Google Photos.

Tips:

  • If yous have more than one Apple tree Photos Library, only the System Photograph Library volition be backed up. You can utilise Apple Photos to modify the System Photograph 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 ten.15 and above.

Upload items to Google Photos from your browser

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

You can besides drag photos from your computer to the album to upload them to Google Photos. If yous drag a photo to a specific album, the photo volition be uploaded to that album.

View where your photos & videos were uploaded from

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

Related resources

  • Download photos or videos to your device
  • Finish syncing Google Drive files with Backup and Sync
  • How your Google storage works

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