Back upwards photos & videos

About 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 be accessible from whatever device where yous are logged into your account.

Benefits

  • Never lose a retention: Any photos you take from a device with backup enabled will be saved to your Google Account.
  • Automatic sync: Any edits y'all brand or photos you take volition be accessible beyond any device that you sign in to. If you edit and save a photo on your telephone, the photograph will look the aforementioned on Google Photos.
  • Fast and powerful search: You tin can search your photos past the people (when you've enabled face grouping), places, and things in them. No tagging is required.
  • Automated creations: Bring photos to life with automatically created movies, collages, animations, and panoramas.

Before you lot get started

What y'all need to back up photos & videos

  • Good internet connection.
  • File sizes that can exist backed up.  Your files won't exist backed up if they are:
    • Photos larger than 200 MB or 150 MP
    • Videos larger than ten GB.
    • Items smaller than 256 10 256.
  • File types that can 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, .mod, .mmv, .tod, .wmv, .asf, .avi, .divx, .mov, .m4v, .3gp, .3g2, .mp4, .m2t, .m2ts, .mts, and .mkv files.

If you lot try to back up a file blazon non listed here, it may not work with Google Photos.

Important: Your Google Business relationship storage is shared across multiple products like Google Photos, Google Bulldoze, and Gmail. If you have used all of your storage, yous won't exist able to dorsum up new files.

Types of RAW files you can back upward

Canon
EOS-1D X Mark Iii, EOS-1D X Marking Ii, EOS-1D Ten, EOS-1Ds Mark Iii, EOS-1Ds Mark II, EOS-1D Mark IV, EOS-1D Mark Three, EOS-1D Mark Ii, EOS-1D C, EOS-1D Mark 2 N, EOS 5D Marking Four, EOS 5D Marker III, EOS 5D Marking 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 REBEL T8i/EOS 850D), EOS Kiss X9i (EOS REBEL T7i/EOS 800D), EOS Osculation X8i (EOS Rebel T6i/EOS 750D), EOS Kiss X7i (EOS Rebel T5i/EOS 700D), EOS Kiss 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 REBEL T1i/EOS 500D), EOS Kiss X2 (EOS DIGITAL REBEL XSi/EOS 450D), EOS Kiss X90 (EOS Insubordinate T7/EOS 2000D/EOS 1500D), EOS Osculation X80 (EOS Insubordinate T6/EOS 1300D), EOS Osculation X70 (EOS REBEL T5/EOS 1200D), EOS Kiss X50 (EOS Rebel T3/EOS 1100D), EOS Kiss F (EOS DIGITAL Insubordinate XS/EOS 1000D), EOS Kiss Digital X (EOS DIGITAL Insubordinate XTi/EOS 400D DIGITAL), EOS Kiss Digital Due north (EOS DIGITAL Insubordinate XT/EOS 350D DIGITAL), EOS Kiss M (EOS M50), EOS M6 Marker II, EOS M6, EOS M5, EOS M3, EOS M2, EOS K, EOS M10, EOS M200, EOS M100, PowerShot G9 10 Marker II, PowerShot G9 X, PowerShot G7 10 Mark III, PowerShot G7 X Mark II, PowerShot G7 X, PowerShot G5 X Mark II, PowerShot G5 X, PowerShot G3 X, PowerShot G1 10 Marker III, PowerShot G1 Ten Marking 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, Due east-M5, E-M10, East-P1, E-P2, E-P3, E-P5, Due east-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 Ii, A55, A58, A65, A77, A77 Mark Two, A99, A700, A3000, A5000, A5100, A6000, QX1, NEX-5, NEX-5N, NEX-5R, NEX-half dozen, NEX-vii, NEX-C3, NEX-F3, RX1, RX1R, RX10, RX10 Mark II, RX100, RX100 Marking II, RX100 Marking III, RX100 Mark 4

DNG files
All .dng files

Turn support & sync on or off

Before you start, make sure y'all're signed in.

  • Choose the Google Account to support photos and videos: Under "Backup account", tap the account proper name.
  • Change your upload size: Tap Upload size. Learn more near upload sizes.
  • Support device folders: Tap Back up device folders and select the folders you want to support.
  • Support on mobile information: If you lot don't desire to await for Wi-Fi to back up your videos, under "Cellular data usage," tapVideos. Charges from your service provider may apply if you upload using your mobile network.
  • Back upwardly while roaming: In Photos, open Settings and tap Back up & sync and then Jail cell data usage and plough on Back up while roaming.

Back up with unrestricted data

Some mobile operators provide admission 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 like Verizon and AT&T in the US. If you use ane of these operators, you may run into an selection that enables backup for 'Wi-Fi and unrestricted mobile data'.

Important: Admission to unrestricted data may be express to 5G.

Set up a daily back upwards limit

Troubleshoot issues with auto fill-in

Important: Back up & sync might not work well if y'all accept battery optimization turned on for the Photos app. If you take this issue, you can turn off battery optimization.

Turn off battery optimization on other Android devices

Check if your photos are backed upward

  1. On your Android phone or tablet, open the Google Photos app Photos.
  2. Sign in to your Google Account.
  3. At the top correct, tap your account profile photograph or initial.
  4. Yous can view if fill-in is consummate or if you take items in expect to support. Learn how to fix backup issues.

Costs to back up

As of June 1, 2021, whatsoever new photos or videos y'all 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 volition continue to count toward your Google Account storage. Learn more about photo and video backup options.

Each Google Account comes with xv GB of storage.

Check your Google Account storage.

Important: Whatsoever photos or videos you've backed up in High quality or Express quality before June 1, 2021 won't count toward your Google Account storage.

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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