Back up photos & videos

Nigh support and sync

Support and sync is a storage service that automatically saves your photos and videos to your Google Business relationship. These photos and videos volition exist attainable from whatever device where you are logged into your account.

Benefits

  • Never lose a retentivity: Whatever photos you lot take from a device with fill-in enabled will be saved to your Google Account.
  • Automatic sync: Whatever edits you lot make or photos you take will be accessible across any device that you sign in to. If you edit and salvage a photo on your phone, the photo will look the same 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 you need to back up photos & videos

  • Adept net connectedness.
  • File sizes that tin be backed upwardly.  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 be backed upwardly.
    • Photos: .jpg, .heic, .png, .webp, .gif, and some RAW files.
    • Live photos tin be backed upward 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 support a file blazon not listed here, information technology may not work with Google Photos.

Important: Your Google Account storage is shared beyond multiple products like Google Photos, Google Drive, and Gmail. If y'all have used all of your storage, yous won't exist able to support new files.

Types of RAW files you tin can back up

Catechism
EOS-1D Ten Mark III, EOS-1D X Mark Two, EOS-1D X, EOS-1Ds Marker 3, EOS-1Ds Mark 2, EOS-1D Marking IV, EOS-1D Marker III, EOS-1D Marking II, EOS-1D C, EOS-1D Marking Two Due north, EOS 5D Marking 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 Marker 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 Buss X10i (EOS REBEL T8i/EOS 850D), EOS Kiss X9i (EOS Rebel T7i/EOS 800D), EOS Kiss X8i (EOS Rebel T6i/EOS 750D), EOS Kiss X7i (EOS Rebel T5i/EOS 700D), EOS Osculation X6i (EOS Rebel T4i/EOS 650D), EOS Kiss X10 (EOS Insubordinate SL3/EOS 250D/EOS 200D Ii), EOS Kiss X9 (EOS Insubordinate SL2/EOS 200D), EOS Kiss X7 (EOS REBEL SL1/EOS 100D), EOS Kiss X5 (EOS Rebel T3i/EOS 600D), EOS Kiss X4 (EOS Insubordinate T2i/EOS 550D), EOS Osculation 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 Osculation X80 (EOS Insubordinate T6/EOS 1300D), EOS Kiss X70 (EOS Insubordinate T5/EOS 1200D), EOS Osculation X50 (EOS Rebel T3/EOS 1100D), EOS Kiss F (EOS DIGITAL Insubordinate XS/EOS 1000D), EOS Kiss Digital 10 (EOS DIGITAL Insubordinate XTi/EOS 400D DIGITAL), EOS Buss 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 K, EOS M10, EOS M200, EOS M100, PowerShot G9 X Mark II, PowerShot G9 10, PowerShot G7 X Marking 3, PowerShot G7 X Mark II, PowerShot G7 X, PowerShot G5 X Mark II, PowerShot G5 10, PowerShot G3 X, PowerShot G1 Ten 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, East-M10, East-P1, E-P2, E-P3, E-P5, E-PL3, E-PL5, E-PL7, OM-D East-M5 Marking II

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

Sony
A7, A7R, A7S, A7 Marker 2, A55, A58, A65, A77, A77 Marker II, A99, A700, A3000, A5000, A5100, A6000, QX1, NEX-v, NEX-5N, NEX-5R, NEX-6, NEX-vii, NEX-C3, NEX-F3, RX1, RX1R, RX10, RX10 Mark II, RX100, RX100 Mark II, RX100 Mark 3, RX100 Mark Iv

DNG files
All .dng files

There are 2 ways to back upwardly your phone, camera, or storage card from your computer:

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

Prepare Google Drive 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 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 you 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 Drive or your figurer.
  • Uploads tin can be slower and apply more than storage if you dorsum upward to both Google Photos and Google Drive. Unless you lot need a 2nd copy in Drive, we recommend you dorsum upwardly 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 you already have Fill-in 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 gear up Google Bulldoze for desktop.

Select a different upload size

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

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

Back up your Apple Photo Library (Mac only)

If your reckoner runs macOS, yous tin can support your System Photograph Library to Google Photos.

Tips:

  • If you accept more than than one Apple Photos Library, only the System Photo Library will exist backed up. You tin can utilise Apple Photos to change the Organisation Photo Library.
  • If your Apple tree Photograph Library is synced with iCloud, all photos and videos in your library and cloud will be backed upwardly to Google Photos on macOS 10.fifteen and above.

Upload items to Google Photos from your browser

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

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

View where your photos & videos were uploaded from

In Google Photos, you lot tin view how you lot 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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