Support photos & videos

Nearly back up 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 will be accessible from any device where you are logged into your account.

Benefits

  • Never lose a memory: Whatever photos you accept from a device with fill-in 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 yous sign in to. If you edit and relieve a photo on your phone, the photo will await the same on Google Photos.
  • Fast and powerful search: Yous can search your photos by the people (when y'all'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 get started

What yous need to back up photos & videos

  • Good net connection.
  • File sizes that tin exist backed up.  Your files won't exist 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 upwards.
    • Photos: .jpg, .heic, .png, .webp, .gif, and some RAW files.
    • Live photos can be backed up if you 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 endeavour 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 Bulldoze, and Gmail. If y'all have used all of your storage, you won't be able to back up new files.

Types of RAW files you can dorsum upward

Catechism
EOS-1D Ten Mark Three, EOS-1D X Marking II, EOS-1D Ten, EOS-1Ds Mark III, EOS-1Ds Mark 2, EOS-1D Mark 4, EOS-1D Mark III, EOS-1D Mark Two, EOS-1D C, EOS-1D Mark Two Due north, EOS 5D Mark Iv, EOS 5D Mark Three, EOS 5D Marker 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 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 Osculation X9i (EOS Rebel T7i/EOS 800D), EOS Kiss X8i (EOS REBEL T6i/EOS 750D), EOS Osculation X7i (EOS REBEL 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 Kiss X4 (EOS REBEL T2i/EOS 550D), EOS Kiss X3 (EOS Insubordinate T1i/EOS 500D), EOS Kiss X2 (EOS DIGITAL Insubordinate XSi/EOS 450D), EOS Buss X90 (EOS REBEL T7/EOS 2000D/EOS 1500D), EOS Kiss X80 (EOS Rebel 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 Kiss Digital X (EOS DIGITAL Rebel XTi/EOS 400D DIGITAL), EOS Kiss Digital Northward (EOS DIGITAL REBEL XT/EOS 350D DIGITAL), EOS Kiss Thousand (EOS M50), EOS M6 Mark II, EOS M6, EOS M5, EOS M3, EOS M2, EOS Grand, EOS M10, EOS M200, EOS M100, PowerShot G9 X Mark Two, PowerShot G9 X, PowerShot G7 Ten Mark 3, PowerShot G7 X Mark II, PowerShot G7 Ten, PowerShot G5 X Mark Two, PowerShot G5 X, PowerShot G3 X, PowerShot G1 X Mark Three, 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, E-M5, E-M10, E-P1, East-P2, E-P3, East-P5, E-PL3, Eastward-PL5, E-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 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 Marking II, RX100, RX100 Mark II, RX100 Marker Iii, RX100 Marking Four

DNG files
All .dng files

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

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

Set Google Bulldoze for desktop

  1. On your figurer, download and install Google Drive for Desktop.
  2. Sign in to your Google Account.
  3. Select the folders or pictures y'all want to back up and thenBack up to Google Photos.
  4. Select Washed and thenSalvage.

Important:

  • If you remove a photo or video from your computer that you previously backed up to Google Photos, information technology stays in Google Photos.
  • If you lot remove a photograph or video from Google Photos, information technology isn't removed from Google Drive or your computer.
  • Uploads can be slower and use more storage if you back up to both Google Photos and Google Drive. Unless y'all need a second copy in Drive, we recommend you dorsum up photos and videos to Google Photos.

If you already have Fill-in and Sync for Bulldoze

Fill-in and Sync is at present Google Drive for desktop.

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

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

Select a unlike upload size

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

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

Back up your Apple Photo Library (Mac only)

If your computer runs macOS, y'all can back upwardly your Organization Photo Library to Google Photos.

Tips:

  • If you accept more than than ane Apple Photos Library, only the System Photo Library will be backed up. Yous can use Apple Photos to change the Organisation Photo Library.
  • If your Apple tree Photo Library is synced with iCloud, all photos and videos in your library and cloud will be backed upwardly to Google Photos on macOS 10.15 and to a higher place.

Upload items to Google Photos from your browser

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

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

View where your photos & videos were uploaded from

In Google Photos, you can 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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