Back up photos and videos

Virtually support 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 attainable from any device where you are logged in to your business relationship.

Benefits

  • Never lose a memory: Any photos that you take from a device with backup enabled volition be saved to your Google Account.
  • Automatic sync: Any edits that you make or photos that y'all take volition be accessible beyond whatever device that you lot sign in to. If you edit and save a photo on your phone, the photo will expect the same on Google Photos.
  • Fast and powerful search: yous can search your photos by 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.

Earlier you lot outset

What you need to back upwards photos and videos

  • Good Cyberspace connection.
  • File sizes that 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 exist backed upwardly.
    • Photos: .jpg, .heic, .png, .webp, .gif and some RAW files.
    • Live photos tin can be backed upwardly if yous 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 back up a file type not listed here, information technology may non 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 exist able to back up new files.

Types of RAW files that you tin can support

Catechism
EOS-1D X Mark 3, EOS-1D X Mark 2, EOS-1D X, EOS-1Ds Marking III, EOS-1Ds Marking 2, EOS-1D Mark 4, EOS-1D Mark III, EOS-1D Mark II, EOS-1D C, EOS-1D Mark II Northward, EOS 5D Mark Four, EOS 5D Marking 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 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 Insubordinate T8i/EOS 850D), EOS Buss X9i (EOS REBEL T7i/EOS 800D), EOS Kiss X8i (EOS REBEL T6i/EOS 750D), EOS Kiss X7i (EOS Rebel T5i/EOS 700D), EOS Osculation X6i (EOS Insubordinate T4i/EOS 650D), EOS Kiss X10 (EOS REBEL SL3/EOS 250D/EOS 200D Ii), 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 Kiss X4 (EOS REBEL T2i/EOS 550D), EOS Kiss X3 (EOS Rebel T1i/EOS 500D), EOS Kiss X2 (EOS DIGITAL Rebel 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 DIGTAL Rebel XS/EOS 1000D), EOS Kiss Digital X (EOS DIGITAL REBEL XTi/EOS 400D DIGITAL), EOS Kiss Digital N (EOS DIGITAL REBEL XT/EOS 350D DIGITAL), EOS Kiss M (EOS M50), EOS M6 Marker II, EOS M6, EOS M5, EOS M3, EOS M2, EOS M, EOS M10, EOS M200, EOS M100, PowerShot G9 10 Mark II, PowerShot G9 Ten, PowerShot G7 X Mark III, PowerShot G7 10 Mark 2, PowerShot G7 10, PowerShot G5 Ten Mark 2, PowerShot G5 X, PowerShot G3 X, PowerShot G1 X Mark Iii, PowerShot G1 X Mark Two, 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, Due east-M10, E-P1, E-P2, E-P3, Due east-P5, Eastward-PL3, Eastward-PL5, E-PL7, OM-D E-M5 Marker 2

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

Sony
A7, A7R, A7S, A7 Marking 2, A55, A58, A65, A77, A77 Mark II, A99, A700, A3000, A5000, A5100, A6000, QX1, NEX-five, NEX-5N, NEX-5R, NEX-6, NEX-vii, NEX-C3, NEX-F3, RX1, RX1R, RX10, RX10 Mark 2, RX100, RX100 Marking II, RX100 Mark Iii, RX100 Marking 4

DNG files
All .dng files

Turn back up & sync on or off

Before you start, make sure that you're signed in.

  • Cull the Google Business relationship to back up photos and videos: Under 'Back up account', tap the business relationship proper noun.
  • Change your upload size: Tap Upload size. Learn more than about upload sizes.
  • Dorsum up device folders: Tap Dorsum upwards device folders and select the folders that you want to back up.
  • Back upwards on mobile data: If y'all don't want to wait for Wi-Fi to dorsum up your videos, under 'Mobile data usage', tapVideos. Service provider charges may apply if you upload using your mobile network.
  • Back up while roaming: In Photos, open up Settings and tap Dorsum up & sync and then Mobile information usage and turn on Back up while roaming.

Support with unrestricted data

Some mobile operators provide access to 'unrestricted mobile information,' which is data that doesn't count towards operator quotas or limits. This option is currently available to some users on operators such as Verizon and AT&T in the United states. If yous use one of these operators, you may run across an option that enables backup for 'Wi-Fi and unrestricted mobile data'.

Important: Access to unrestricted data may be limited to 5G.

Prepare a daily back up limit

Troubleshoot problems with Auto-Fill-in

Important: Support & sync might non work well if you take bombardment optimisation turned on for the Photos app. If you have this consequence, you can plough off battery optimisation.

Turn off battery optimisation on other Android devices

Check if your photos have been backed up

  1. On your Android phone or tablet, open up the Google Photos app Photos.
  2. Sign in to your Google Account.
  3. At the top right, tap your business relationship profile photo or initial.
  4. Y'all can view if the backup is complete or if you have items waiting to exist backed up. Acquire how to gear up backup issues.

Costs to be backed up

Every bit of 1 June 2021, any new photos or videos that you back up in Storage saver quality (previously named loftier quality) or express quality will count towards your Google Account storage. Photos and videos backed up in original quality will continue to count towards your Google Business relationship storage. Learn more well-nigh photograph and video backup options.

Each Google Business relationship comes with 15 GB of storage.

Check your Google Account storage.

Important: Any photos or videos that you've backed upward in high quality or express quality before 1 June 2021 won't count towards your Google Account storage.

Related resources

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

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