Dorsum up photos & videos

About back up 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 you are logged into your business relationship.

Benefits

  • Never lose a retention: Any photos yous take from a device with backup enabled volition 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 lot edit and relieve a photograph on your phone, the photograph will await the same on Google Photos.
  • Fast and powerful search: You can search your photos by the people (when you've enabled face group), places, and things in them. No tagging is required.
  • Automatic creations: Bring photos to life with automatically created movies, collages, animations, and panoramas.

Before you lot become started

What you demand to back up photos & videos

  • Good internet connection.
  • File sizes that can exist backed up.  Your files won't be backed up if they are:
    • Photos larger than 200 MB or 150 MP
    • Videos larger than x 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 employ 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 non listed here, it may not work with Google Photos.

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

Types of RAW files you can back upward

Canon
EOS-1D Ten Mark Three, EOS-1D X Marker Ii, EOS-1D X, EOS-1Ds Mark III, EOS-1Ds Mark II, EOS-1D Mark IV, EOS-1D Marker Iii, EOS-1D Marking II, EOS-1D C, EOS-1D Marking II N, EOS 5D Marker IV, EOS 5D Marker III, EOS 5D Mark Ii, EOS 5D, EOS 5Ds, EOS 5Ds R, EOS R5, EOS 6D Mark 2, EOS 6D, EOS R6, EOS R, EOS Ra, EOS RP, EOS 7D Mark 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 Kiss X10i (EOS REBEL T8i/EOS 850D), EOS Buss X9i (EOS REBEL T7i/EOS 800D), EOS Kiss X8i (EOS Insubordinate T6i/EOS 750D), EOS Kiss X7i (EOS Insubordinate 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 Rebel SL2/EOS 200D), EOS Kiss X7 (EOS REBEL SL1/EOS 100D), EOS Kiss X5 (EOS REBEL T3i/EOS 600D), EOS Osculation X4 (EOS REBEL T2i/EOS 550D), EOS Kiss X3 (EOS REBEL T1i/EOS 500D), EOS Buss X2 (EOS DIGITAL REBEL XSi/EOS 450D), EOS Buss X90 (EOS REBEL T7/EOS 2000D/EOS 1500D), EOS Kiss 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 Buss Digital X (EOS DIGITAL REBEL XTi/EOS 400D DIGITAL), EOS Kiss Digital N (EOS DIGITAL Rebel XT/EOS 350D DIGITAL), EOS Buss M (EOS M50), EOS M6 Mark II, EOS M6, EOS M5, EOS M3, EOS M2, EOS One thousand, EOS M10, EOS M200, EOS M100, PowerShot G9 10 Marking II, PowerShot G9 X, PowerShot G7 X Mark III, PowerShot G7 X Mark II, PowerShot G7 X, PowerShot G5 X Marking Ii, PowerShot G5 X, PowerShot G3 Ten, PowerShot G1 10 Marking III, PowerShot G1 Ten Mark Two, 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, Due east-M5, E-M10, E-P1, E-P2, Due east-P3, Eastward-P5, East-PL3, E-PL5, E-PL7, OM-D E-M5 Mark Two

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 Two, 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 Two, RX100, RX100 Mark II, RX100 Mark Iii, RX100 Marker Four

DNG files
All .dng files

There are ii ways to support your phone, camera, or storage carte from your computer:

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

Ready Google Bulldoze 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 you lot remove a photo or video from your figurer that you previously backed up to Google Photos, it stays in Google Photos.
  • If y'all remove a photo or video from Google Photos, information technology isn't removed from Google Drive or your reckoner.
  • Uploads can exist slower and utilize more storage if yous support to both Google Photos and Google Drive. Unless you demand a second copy in Drive, nosotros recommend yous back up photos and videos to Google Photos.

If yous already have Backup and Sync for Drive

Backup and Sync is now Google Drive for desktop.

If you already have Backup and Sync installed, y'all'll be migrated to Google Drive for desktop.

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

Select a different upload size

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

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

Back up your Apple Photo Library (Mac only)

If your figurer runs macOS, you can support your System Photograph Library to Google Photos.

Tips:

  • If you accept more than than 1 Apple Photos Library, just the System Photograph Library volition be backed up. You can employ 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 upward to Google Photos on macOS 10.xv and above.

Upload items to Google Photos from your browser

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

You lot tin can likewise drag photos from your computer to the album to upload them to Google Photos. If yous drag a photograph to a specific album, the photo will be uploaded to that album.

View where your photos & videos were uploaded from

In Google Photos, yous can view how yous 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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