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 volition be accessible from whatever device where you are logged into your account.

Benefits

  • Never lose a retentiveness: Any photos you take from a device with backup enabled will be saved to your Google Account.
  • Automatic sync: Whatsoever edits you make or photos you lot take will be accessible across any device that you sign in to. If you edit and save a photo on your phone, the photo will look the same on Google Photos.
  • Fast and powerful search: You can search your photos past 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 lot get started

What you need to back up photos & videos

  • Good cyberspace connectedness.
  • File sizes that can be backed up.  Your files won't exist backed upwards 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 tin be backed upward.
    • Photos: .jpg, .heic, .png, .webp, .gif, and some RAW files.
    • Live photos can be backed up if you lot 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 type not listed here, it may not work with Google Photos.

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

Types of RAW files you can back up

Canon
EOS-1D 10 Mark Three, EOS-1D X Mark II, EOS-1D X, EOS-1Ds Mark III, EOS-1Ds Mark Two, EOS-1D Marker IV, EOS-1D Marker III, EOS-1D Mark II, EOS-1D C, EOS-1D Mark Ii N, EOS 5D Marker IV, EOS 5D Mark Three, EOS 5D Marker II, EOS 5D, EOS 5Ds, EOS 5Ds R, EOS R5, EOS 6D Mark Two, 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 REBEL T6S/EOS 760D), EOS Buss X10i (EOS Rebel T8i/EOS 850D), EOS Buss X9i (EOS Insubordinate T7i/EOS 800D), EOS Buss X8i (EOS REBEL 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 II), EOS Kiss X9 (EOS Rebel SL2/EOS 200D), EOS Buss X7 (EOS REBEL SL1/EOS 100D), EOS Buss X5 (EOS Insubordinate T3i/EOS 600D), EOS Kiss X4 (EOS Insubordinate T2i/EOS 550D), EOS Kiss 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 REBEL T6/EOS 1300D), EOS Kiss X70 (EOS Rebel T5/EOS 1200D), EOS Kiss X50 (EOS Insubordinate T3/EOS 1100D), EOS Osculation F (EOS DIGITAL Insubordinate XS/EOS 1000D), EOS Kiss Digital X (EOS DIGITAL REBEL XTi/EOS 400D DIGITAL), EOS Osculation Digital N (EOS DIGITAL Rebel XT/EOS 350D DIGITAL), EOS Kiss Thou (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 Mark Ii, PowerShot G9 X, PowerShot G7 X Marker III, PowerShot G7 X Mark II, PowerShot G7 10, PowerShot G5 X Mark II, PowerShot G5 X, PowerShot G3 X, PowerShot G1 X Marking Iii, PowerShot G1 Ten 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
E-M1, E-M5, E-M10, East-P1, E-P2, E-P3, Eastward-P5, East-PL3, E-PL5, E-PL7, OM-D Eastward-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 Marker 2, 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 Marking Ii, RX100, RX100 Marking II, RX100 Mark III, RX100 Mark IV

DNG files
All .dng files

Plow back up & sync on or off

Change your backup settings

  • Cull the Google Account to back up photos and videos: Under "Backup account," tap the business relationship name.
  • Modify your upload size: Tap Upload size. Learn more about upload sizes.
  • Back upward on mobile information: If you don't want to look for Wi-Fi to back upward your photos, nether "When to back up," tap Use cellular data to back upwards photos or Use cellular data to back up videos. Charges from your service provider may apply if you lot 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 correct, tap your Google Account profile picture.
  4. You can view if backup is complete or if you have items in wait to support. Learn how to gear up backup problems.

Costs to back up

As of June 1, 2021, any new photos or videos you back up in Storage saver quality (previously named High quality) or Express quality volition count toward your Google Account storage. Photos and videos backed up in Original quality will go along to count toward your Google Account storage. Learn more virtually photo and video backup options.

Each Google Account comes with xv GB of storage.

Check your Google Account storage.

Important: Any photos or videos y'all've backed up in Loftier quality or Express quality before June i, 2021 won't count toward your Google Account storage.

Related resources

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

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