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 whatever device where you are logged into your account.

Benefits

  • Never lose a memory: Any photos you 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 beyond whatsoever device that you sign in to. If y'all edit and relieve a photo on your telephone, the photo will wait the same on Google Photos.
  • Fast and powerful search: Y'all tin can search your photos by 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.

Before you get started

What you need to back upwards photos & videos

  • Adept internet connectedness.
  • File sizes that tin be backed upwardly.  Your files won't be backed upwards if they are:
    • Photos larger than 200 MB or 150 MP
    • Videos larger than ten GB.
    • Items smaller than 256 10 256.
  • 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 apply the Google Photos app on your iPhone or iPad.
    • Videos: .mpg, .modernistic, .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 beyond multiple products like 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 can dorsum up

Catechism
EOS-1D X Marker III, EOS-1D X Mark 2, EOS-1D 10, EOS-1Ds Mark III, EOS-1Ds Marking Ii, EOS-1D Marking Four, EOS-1D Marking Iii, EOS-1D Mark 2, EOS-1D C, EOS-1D Mark II Northward, EOS 5D Mark Four, EOS 5D Mark III, EOS 5D Mark II, EOS 5D, EOS 5Ds, EOS 5Ds R, EOS R5, EOS 6D Marking II, EOS 6D, EOS R6, EOS R, EOS Ra, EOS RP, EOS 7D Marker Two, 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 Buss X9i (EOS REBEL T7i/EOS 800D), EOS Kiss X8i (EOS REBEL T6i/EOS 750D), EOS Kiss X7i (EOS REBEL T5i/EOS 700D), EOS Buss 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 Osculation X7 (EOS Insubordinate SL1/EOS 100D), EOS Kiss X5 (EOS REBEL T3i/EOS 600D), EOS Buss 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 Kiss X80 (EOS Insubordinate T6/EOS 1300D), EOS Buss X70 (EOS Rebel T5/EOS 1200D), EOS Buss X50 (EOS Rebel T3/EOS 1100D), EOS Kiss F (EOS DIGITAL REBEL XS/EOS 1000D), EOS Kiss Digital 10 (EOS DIGITAL REBEL XTi/EOS 400D DIGITAL), EOS Kiss Digital Due north (EOS DIGITAL REBEL XT/EOS 350D DIGITAL), EOS Buss 1000 (EOS M50), EOS M6 Mark 2, EOS M6, EOS M5, EOS M3, EOS M2, EOS Chiliad, EOS M10, EOS M200, EOS M100, PowerShot G9 Ten Mark Ii, PowerShot G9 X, PowerShot G7 X Mark III, PowerShot G7 X Mark Ii, PowerShot G7 X, PowerShot G5 X Mark Two, PowerShot G5 X, PowerShot G3 Ten, PowerShot G1 10 Marker 3, PowerShot G1 X Mark II, PowerShot G1 Ten, 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, Eastward-P2, Eastward-P3, East-P5, E-PL3, E-PL5, E-PL7, OM-D East-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 Mark Two, A55, A58, A65, A77, A77 Marker Two, 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 II, RX100, RX100 Marking 2, RX100 Mark III, RX100 Mark Iv

DNG files
All .dng files

In that location are ii ways to dorsum upwards your phone, camera, or storage card from your computer:

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

Fix up 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 thenSalvage.

Important:

  • If you lot remove a photograph or video from your figurer 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 reckoner.
  • Uploads can be slower and use more storage if you back up to both Google Photos and Google Drive. Unless you need a 2d re-create in Drive, we recommend you lot back upwards photos and videos to Google Photos.

If you already take Backup and Sync for Bulldoze

Backup and Sync is now 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 prepare Google Drive for desktop.

Select a unlike upload size

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

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

Back up your Apple Photo Library (Mac simply)

If your computer runs macOS, you lot tin can support your Organization Photo Library to Google Photos.

Tips:

  • If you have more than than one Apple Photos Library, but the System Photo Library will be backed up. Y'all can employ Apple Photos to change the Organisation Photograph Library.
  • If your Apple Photograph Library is synced with iCloud, all photos and videos in your library and deject will be backed up to Google Photos on macOS 10.15 and to a higher place.

Upload items to Google Photos from your browser

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

You can also drag photos from your estimator to the anthology to upload them to Google Photos. If you drag a photograph to a specific album, the photograph volition be uploaded to that anthology.

View where your photos & videos were uploaded from

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

Related resources

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

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