Back up photos & videos

About back up and sync

Back upwardly 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 account.

Benefits

  • Never lose a memory: Any photos y'all have from a device with backup enabled volition exist saved to your Google Account.
  • Automated sync: Whatever edits you make or photos you take will be accessible across any device that you sign in to. If you edit and save a photo on your telephone, the photo will wait the same on Google Photos.
  • Fast and powerful search: Yous tin can search your photos past the people (when yous've enabled confront 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 become started

What you lot need to support photos & videos

  • Good net connexion.
  • File sizes that tin can be backed up.  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 x 256.
  • File types that can be backed upwardly.
    • Photos: .jpg, .heic, .png, .webp, .gif, and some RAW files.
    • Live photos can be backed upward if you lot utilise 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 dorsum upward a file type not listed here, it may not work with Google Photos.

Important: Your Google Business relationship storage is shared across multiple products similar Google Photos, Google Drive, and Gmail. If you lot have used all of your storage, y'all won't exist able to back upward new files.

Types of RAW files you lot tin can support

Canon
EOS-1D Ten Mark 3, EOS-1D X Marking II, EOS-1D X, EOS-1Ds Mark Three, EOS-1Ds Mark II, EOS-1D Mark IV, EOS-1D Mark III, EOS-1D Marking Ii, EOS-1D C, EOS-1D Mark II N, EOS 5D Marker Four, EOS 5D Mark 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 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 REBEL T6S/EOS 760D), EOS Buss 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 Buss X10 (EOS REBEL SL3/EOS 250D/EOS 200D II), EOS Kiss X9 (EOS REBEL SL2/EOS 200D), EOS Kiss X7 (EOS Insubordinate SL1/EOS 100D), EOS Kiss X5 (EOS REBEL T3i/EOS 600D), EOS Kiss X4 (EOS REBEL T2i/EOS 550D), EOS Buss 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 Osculation X80 (EOS Insubordinate T6/EOS 1300D), EOS Kiss X70 (EOS Insubordinate T5/EOS 1200D), EOS Kiss X50 (EOS REBEL T3/EOS 1100D), EOS Osculation F (EOS DIGITAL Insubordinate XS/EOS 1000D), EOS Osculation Digital X (EOS DIGITAL REBEL XTi/EOS 400D DIGITAL), EOS Kiss Digital N (EOS DIGITAL Insubordinate XT/EOS 350D DIGITAL), EOS Buss M (EOS M50), EOS M6 Mark II, EOS M6, EOS M5, EOS M3, EOS M2, EOS K, EOS M10, EOS M200, EOS M100, PowerShot G9 Ten Marker II, PowerShot G9 X, PowerShot G7 Ten Mark III, PowerShot G7 X Mark Two, PowerShot G7 Ten, PowerShot G5 Ten Marking II, PowerShot G5 X, PowerShot G3 X, PowerShot G1 Ten Marking III, PowerShot G1 X Mark 2, 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
Due east-M1, Due east-M5, E-M10, Due east-P1, E-P2, East-P3, E-P5, East-PL3, E-PL5, E-PL7, OM-D Due 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 Mark Two, A55, A58, A65, A77, A77 Mark 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 Mark II, RX100 Mark III, RX100 Mark Four

DNG files
All .dng files

Plough back up & sync on or off

Change your backup settings

  • Choose the Google Account to back up photos and videos: Under "Backup account," tap the account name.
  • Change your upload size: Tap Upload size. Larn more than virtually upload sizes.
  • Back up on mobile information: If you don't want to await for Wi-Fi to back upwards your photos, under "When to back up," tap Use cellular information to support photos or Use cellular data to back up videos. Charges from your service provider may apply if you upload using your mobile network.

Check if your photos are backed up

  1. On your iPhone or iPad, open the Google Photos app Photos.
  2. Sign in to your Google Account.
  3. In the top right, tap your Google Business relationship profile picture.
  4. Yous tin view if backup is complete or if you accept items in expect to back up. Learn how to fix backup issues.

Costs to dorsum up

Every bit of June ane, 2021, any new photos or videos you lot back up in Storage saver quality (previously named High quality) or Express quality will count toward your Google Account storage. Photos and videos backed up in Original quality will proceed to count toward your Google Account storage. Acquire more about photo and video backup options.

Each Google Business relationship comes with 15 GB of storage.

Check your Google Business relationship storage.

Of import: Whatever photos or videos you've backed up in Loftier quality or Express quality before June 1, 2021 won't count toward your Google Business relationship storage.

Related resource

  • 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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