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 Business relationship. These photos and videos will be attainable from any device where yous are logged into your account.

Benefits

  • Never lose a retentiveness: Whatever photos you take from a device with backup enabled will be saved to your Google Account.
  • Automatic sync: Any edits you make or photos you take will exist accessible across any device that you sign in to. If you edit and salve a photo on your telephone, the photo will look the aforementioned on Google Photos.
  • Fast and powerful search: Y'all tin 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 get started

What y'all need to support photos & videos

  • Good internet connectedness.
  • 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 x GB.
    • Items smaller than 256 ten 256.
  • File types that tin can be backed up.
    • Photos: .jpg, .heic, .png, .webp, .gif, and some RAW files.
    • Alive photos can be backed upwardly 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 try to back up a file blazon not listed here, it may not work with Google Photos.

Of import: Your Google Business relationship storage is shared across multiple products like Google Photos, Google Drive, and Gmail. If you have used all of your storage, yous won't be able to support new files.

Types of RAW files y'all tin can dorsum up

Catechism
EOS-1D X Marking Iii, EOS-1D X Mark II, EOS-1D Ten, EOS-1Ds Marker Iii, EOS-1Ds Mark II, EOS-1D Marker IV, EOS-1D Mark 3, EOS-1D Mark II, EOS-1D C, EOS-1D Mark Two N, EOS 5D Marking IV, EOS 5D Marker III, EOS 5D Mark 2, EOS 5D, EOS 5Ds, EOS 5Ds R, EOS R5, EOS 6D Marking II, 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 Buss X10i (EOS REBEL T8i/EOS 850D), EOS Kiss X9i (EOS REBEL T7i/EOS 800D), EOS Kiss 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 Insubordinate SL2/EOS 200D), EOS Buss X7 (EOS REBEL SL1/EOS 100D), EOS Osculation X5 (EOS REBEL T3i/EOS 600D), EOS Kiss X4 (EOS Rebel T2i/EOS 550D), EOS Osculation X3 (EOS Insubordinate T1i/EOS 500D), EOS Kiss X2 (EOS DIGITAL REBEL XSi/EOS 450D), EOS Kiss X90 (EOS REBEL T7/EOS 2000D/EOS 1500D), EOS Kiss X80 (EOS Rebel T6/EOS 1300D), EOS Kiss X70 (EOS Insubordinate T5/EOS 1200D), EOS Kiss X50 (EOS REBEL T3/EOS 1100D), EOS Kiss F (EOS DIGITAL 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 Osculation Thou (EOS M50), EOS M6 Mark Two, EOS M6, EOS M5, EOS M3, EOS M2, EOS M, EOS M10, EOS M200, EOS M100, PowerShot G9 X Mark 2, PowerShot G9 X, PowerShot G7 X Marker Three, PowerShot G7 X Mark Ii, PowerShot G7 X, PowerShot G5 X Mark Two, PowerShot G5 Ten, PowerShot G3 X, PowerShot G1 10 Mark Three, PowerShot G1 X Marking II, 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, E-M5, E-M10, E-P1, E-P2, E-P3, Eastward-P5, East-PL3, Due east-PL5, Due east-PL7, OM-D E-M5 Marker Two

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 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 Two, RX100, RX100 Marking II, RX100 Marking Iii, RX100 Mark 4

DNG files
All .dng files

Plough back up & sync on or off

Before you offset, make sure you're signed in.

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

Back up with unrestricted information

Some mobile operators provide access to 'unrestricted mobile data,' which is information that doesn't count towards operator quotas or limits. This option is currently available to some users on operators similar Verizon and AT&T in the Usa. If you apply one of these operators, you may see an choice that enables backup for 'Wi-Fi and unrestricted mobile data'.

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

Set a daily back up limit

Troubleshoot issues with car backup

Important: Back up & sync might not piece of work well if you lot have bombardment optimization turned on for the Photos app. If yous have this outcome, you can plow off battery optimization.

Turn off bombardment optimization on other Android devices

Bank check if your photos are backed up

  1. On your Android phone or tablet, open the Google Photos app Photos.
  2. Sign in to your Google Account.
  3. At the acme right, tap your account profile photo or initial.
  4. You can view if backup is complete or if you have items in wait to dorsum upwardly. Larn how to fix backup issues.

Costs to support

As of June one, 2021, any new photos or videos y'all dorsum 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 keep to count toward your Google Account storage. Learn more about photo and video backup options.

Each Google Account comes with 15 GB of storage.

Cheque your Google Business relationship storage.

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

Related resources

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

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