Support photos & videos

Virtually 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 exist attainable from any device where you are logged into your account.

Benefits

  • Never lose a memory: Any photos you have from a device with fill-in enabled will be saved to your Google Account.
  • Automated sync: Any edits you lot make or photos you take will exist accessible beyond any device that y'all sign in to. If you edit and save a photo on your telephone, the photo volition look the same on Google Photos.
  • Fast and powerful search: You can search your photos by the people (when yous've enabled face up group), places, and things in them. No tagging is required.
  • Automatic creations: Bring photos to life with automatically created movies, collages, animations, and panoramas.

Earlier y'all get started

What you demand to dorsum upwardly photos & videos

  • Good internet connection.
  • File sizes that tin be backed upwards.  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 ten 256.
  • File types that tin be backed up.
    • Photos: .jpg, .heic, .png, .webp, .gif, and some RAW files.
    • Live photos can exist backed up if you use the Google Photos app on your iPhone or iPad.
    • Videos: .mpg, .modern, .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 blazon non listed here, it may non work with Google Photos.

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

Types of RAW files yous can back up

Canon
EOS-1D X Marking 3, EOS-1D 10 Mark 2, EOS-1D X, EOS-1Ds Marker 3, EOS-1Ds Mark II, EOS-1D Mark Iv, EOS-1D Mark 3, EOS-1D Mark II, EOS-1D C, EOS-1D Marking II Northward, EOS 5D Mark IV, EOS 5D Marker III, EOS 5D Mark Two, 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 2, 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 Osculation X10i (EOS Rebel T8i/EOS 850D), EOS Kiss X9i (EOS Insubordinate T7i/EOS 800D), EOS Kiss X8i (EOS Insubordinate T6i/EOS 750D), EOS Kiss X7i (EOS REBEL T5i/EOS 700D), EOS Kiss X6i (EOS REBEL T4i/EOS 650D), EOS Kiss X10 (EOS REBEL SL3/EOS 250D/EOS 200D Two), 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 REBEL T1i/EOS 500D), EOS Osculation X2 (EOS DIGITAL REBEL XSi/EOS 450D), EOS Kiss X90 (EOS Insubordinate T7/EOS 2000D/EOS 1500D), EOS Buss X80 (EOS REBEL T6/EOS 1300D), EOS Buss X70 (EOS Rebel T5/EOS 1200D), EOS Osculation X50 (EOS REBEL T3/EOS 1100D), EOS Osculation F (EOS DIGITAL Rebel XS/EOS 1000D), EOS Kiss Digital X (EOS DIGITAL REBEL XTi/EOS 400D DIGITAL), EOS Kiss Digital Due north (EOS DIGITAL Insubordinate XT/EOS 350D DIGITAL), EOS Kiss M (EOS M50), EOS M6 Mark 2, EOS M6, EOS M5, EOS M3, EOS M2, EOS M, EOS M10, EOS M200, EOS M100, PowerShot G9 X Marking Ii, PowerShot G9 Ten, PowerShot G7 X Mark III, PowerShot G7 X Mark II, PowerShot G7 X, PowerShot G5 X Mark Two, PowerShot G5 10, PowerShot G3 X, PowerShot G1 X Mark III, PowerShot G1 Ten 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, Due east-M5, E-M10, E-P1, E-P2, E-P3, Due 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 II, 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 II, RX100 Mark III, RX100 Mark Four

DNG files
All .dng files

There are 2 means to support your phone, camera, or storage carte du jour from your computer:

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

Fix up Google Drive for desktop

  1. On your estimator, download and install Google Bulldoze for Desktop.
  2. Sign in to your Google Account.
  3. Select the folders or pictures you desire to support and thenBack up to Google Photos.
  4. Select Done and thenSave.

Important:

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

If you lot already have Backup and Sync for Drive

Backup and Sync is now Google Drive for desktop.

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

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

Select a unlike upload size

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

Of import: Y'all can't change the upload size for files synced with Google Drive.

Support your Apple Photo Library (Mac only)

If your reckoner runs macOS, y'all can back up your Organisation Photo Library to Google Photos.

Tips:

  • If you have more than one Apple Photos Library, only the System Photo Library will be backed upwardly. You lot tin can use Apple Photos to change the Organization Photo Library.
  • If your Apple Photo Library is synced with iCloud, all photos and videos in your library and cloud will be backed up to Google Photos on macOS ten.15 and in a higher place.

Upload items to Google Photos from your browser

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

You tin can also drag photos from your computer to the album to upload them to Google Photos. If you elevate a photo to a specific album, the photo volition be uploaded to that album.

View where your photos & videos were uploaded from

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

Related resources

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

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