Back upwardly photos and videos

About support 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 exist accessible from whatever device where yous are logged in to your account.

Benefits

  • Never lose a retentiveness: Any photos that you have from a device with fill-in enabled will be saved to your Google Account.
  • Automatic sync: Any edits that you make or photos that y'all have volition exist accessible beyond any device that you 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: you lot tin 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.

Before you commencement

What you need to support photos and videos

  • Good Cyberspace connection.
  • File sizes that can be backed upwardly.  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 exist backed up.
    • Photos: .jpg, .heic, .png, .webp, .gif and some RAW files.
    • Live photos can exist backed upwards 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 yous try to support a file type non listed hither, it may not piece of work with Google Photos.

Of import: 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, you won't exist able to back up new files.

Types of RAW files that you tin can back up

Catechism
EOS-1D Ten Marker III, EOS-1D 10 Mark 2, EOS-1D X, EOS-1Ds Marking 3, EOS-1Ds Mark Ii, EOS-1D Marking IV, EOS-1D Mark III, EOS-1D Marking II, EOS-1D C, EOS-1D Marking II North, EOS 5D Mark IV, EOS 5D Mark 3, EOS 5D Mark 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 Mark Two, 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 Kiss X10i (EOS Insubordinate 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 Insubordinate T4i/EOS 650D), EOS Osculation X10 (EOS Rebel SL3/EOS 250D/EOS 200D II), EOS Kiss X9 (EOS REBEL SL2/EOS 200D), EOS Osculation X7 (EOS Insubordinate SL1/EOS 100D), EOS Buss X5 (EOS REBEL T3i/EOS 600D), EOS Buss X4 (EOS REBEL T2i/EOS 550D), EOS Osculation X3 (EOS REBEL T1i/EOS 500D), EOS Osculation 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 Buss X50 (EOS REBEL T3/EOS 1100D), EOS Buss F (EOS DIGTAL REBEL XS/EOS 1000D), EOS Kiss Digital 10 (EOS DIGITAL Insubordinate XTi/EOS 400D DIGITAL), EOS Kiss Digital Due north (EOS DIGITAL REBEL XT/EOS 350D DIGITAL), EOS Osculation Thou (EOS M50), EOS M6 Mark II, EOS M6, EOS M5, EOS M3, EOS M2, EOS 1000, EOS M10, EOS M200, EOS M100, PowerShot G9 Ten Mark Ii, PowerShot G9 X, PowerShot G7 X Mark Three, PowerShot G7 X Mark II, PowerShot G7 X, PowerShot G5 X Marker Ii, PowerShot G5 X, PowerShot G3 10, PowerShot G1 10 Marker Three, PowerShot G1 X Marker 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, East-PL3, Due east-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 Marking II, A55, A58, A65, A77, A77 Mark II, A99, A700, A3000, A5000, A5100, A6000, QX1, NEX-five, NEX-5N, NEX-5R, NEX-6, NEX-7, NEX-C3, NEX-F3, RX1, RX1R, RX10, RX10 Mark Ii, RX100, RX100 Mark Two, RX100 Mark Three, RX100 Mark Four

DNG files
All .dng files

Plow back up & sync on or off

Earlier y'all kickoff, make sure that y'all're signed in.

  • Choose the Google Account to back up photos and videos: Under 'Dorsum upward account', tap the business relationship proper name.
  • Change your upload size: Tap Upload size. Learn more about upload sizes.
  • Dorsum up device folders: Tap Back up device folders and select the folders that yous want to dorsum up.
  • Back up on mobile data: If you don't want to await for Wi-Fi to support your videos, under 'Mobile information 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 Back up & sync and then Mobile data usage and plow on Back up while roaming.

Support with unrestricted data

Some mobile operators provide admission to 'unrestricted mobile data,' which is data that doesn't count towards operator quotas or limits. This choice is currently available to some users on operators such as Verizon and AT&T in the US. If you use 1 of these operators, you may see an pick that enables fill-in for 'Wi-Fi and unrestricted mobile data'.

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

Set a daily back up limit

Troubleshoot problems with Auto-Backup

Important: Back up & sync might not work well if you have battery optimisation turned on for the Photos app. If y'all take this issue, yous can turn 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 the Google Photos app Photos.
  2. Sign in to your Google Business relationship.
  3. At the acme right, tap your account profile photo or initial.
  4. You tin view if the backup is complete or if y'all accept items waiting to be backed up. Learn how to fix backup bug.

Costs to be backed up

Every bit of one June 2021, any new photos or videos that you lot back up in Storage saver quality (previously named high quality) or express quality will count towards your Google Account storage. Photos and videos backed up in original quality volition continue to count towards your Google Account storage. Acquire more almost photo and video backup options.

Each Google Business relationship comes with 15 GB of storage.

Bank check your Google Account storage.

Of import: 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
  • Stop syncing Google Drive files with Backup and Sync
  • How your Google storage works

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