Back up photos & videos

About support and sync

Dorsum upward and sync is a storage service that automatically saves your photos and videos to your Google Account. These photos and videos volition be accessible from whatever device where you are logged into your account.

Benefits

  • Never lose a retentivity: Any photos yous take from a device with fill-in enabled volition be saved to your Google Account.
  • Automatic sync: Whatsoever edits you lot make or photos you take volition exist accessible across any device that you sign in to. If y'all edit and save a photo on your telephone, the photo will await 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 y'all become started

What you demand to support photos & videos

  • Good internet connection.
  • File sizes that can exist backed upwards.  Your files won't exist backed upwardly if they are:
    • Photos larger than 200 MB or 150 MP
    • Videos larger than 10 GB.
    • Items smaller than 256 ten 256.
  • File types that can be backed up.
    • Photos: .jpg, .heic, .png, .webp, .gif, and some RAW files.
    • Live photos tin be backed up if y'all apply 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 y'all endeavor to back up a file type non listed here, information technology may not work with Google Photos.

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

Types of RAW files y'all can back upward

Canon
EOS-1D 10 Marking 3, EOS-1D X Mark II, EOS-1D Ten, EOS-1Ds Mark Three, EOS-1Ds Mark II, EOS-1D Mark Iv, EOS-1D Marking Three, EOS-1D Mark II, EOS-1D C, EOS-1D Marker II Due north, EOS 5D Mark Iv, EOS 5D Marker Three, EOS 5D Marking 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 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 Kiss X10i (EOS Rebel T8i/EOS 850D), EOS Kiss X9i (EOS REBEL T7i/EOS 800D), EOS Kiss X8i (EOS REBEL T6i/EOS 750D), EOS Osculation X7i (EOS Insubordinate T5i/EOS 700D), EOS Buss X6i (EOS REBEL T4i/EOS 650D), EOS Kiss X10 (EOS REBEL SL3/EOS 250D/EOS 200D Two), EOS Osculation X9 (EOS Rebel SL2/EOS 200D), EOS Kiss X7 (EOS Insubordinate SL1/EOS 100D), EOS Kiss X5 (EOS REBEL T3i/EOS 600D), EOS Osculation X4 (EOS REBEL T2i/EOS 550D), EOS Buss X3 (EOS Insubordinate T1i/EOS 500D), EOS Kiss X2 (EOS DIGITAL REBEL XSi/EOS 450D), EOS Kiss X90 (EOS Insubordinate T7/EOS 2000D/EOS 1500D), EOS Kiss X80 (EOS Insubordinate T6/EOS 1300D), EOS Kiss X70 (EOS Insubordinate T5/EOS 1200D), EOS Kiss X50 (EOS REBEL T3/EOS 1100D), EOS Kiss F (EOS DIGITAL Insubordinate 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 Kiss 1000 (EOS M50), EOS M6 Marking II, EOS M6, EOS M5, EOS M3, EOS M2, EOS M, EOS M10, EOS M200, EOS M100, PowerShot G9 X Marker II, PowerShot G9 X, PowerShot G7 X Marking 3, PowerShot G7 X Mark 2, PowerShot G7 Ten, PowerShot G5 Ten Mark II, PowerShot G5 X, PowerShot G3 X, PowerShot G1 X Marker Three, PowerShot G1 Ten Mark Ii, PowerShot G1 10, 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, E-M10, E-P1, E-P2, E-P3, E-P5, Due east-PL3, E-PL5, East-PL7, OM-D East-M5 Mark 2

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

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

DNG files
All .dng files

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

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

Fix Google Drive for desktop

  1. On your estimator, download and install Google Drive for Desktop.
  2. Sign in to your Google Business relationship.
  3. Select the folders or pictures you want to dorsum upwardly and thenBack up to Google Photos.
  4. Select Washed and thenSave.

Important:

  • If you lot remove a photo or video from your computer that y'all previously backed upwards to Google Photos, it stays in Google Photos.
  • If you remove a photo or video from Google Photos, information technology isn't removed from Google Drive or your computer.
  • Uploads can be slower and employ more storage if you back upward to both Google Photos and Google Bulldoze. Unless y'all need a 2d re-create in Drive, we recommend yous support 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, you'll be migrated to Google Bulldoze for desktop.

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

Select a unlike upload size

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

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

Back up your Apple Photo Library (Mac only)

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

Tips:

  • If you have more than one Apple Photos Library, just the System Photo Library will be backed up. Yous can apply Apple Photos to change the Arrangement Photo Library.
  • If your Apple Photo Library is synced with iCloud, all photos and videos in your library and deject volition exist backed up to Google Photos on macOS x.xv and higher up.

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.

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

View where your photos & videos were uploaded from

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

Related resources

  • Download photos or videos to your device
  • Stop syncing Google Bulldoze files with Fill-in and Sync
  • How your Google storage works

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