Support photos and videos

Nigh 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 volition be accessible from any device where you lot are logged in to your account.

Benefits

  • Never lose a retentivity: Any photos that you take from a device with backup enabled will be saved to your Google Business relationship.
  • Automatic sync: Any edits that you lot make or photos that you accept will be accessible across any device that you lot sign in to. If you edit and save a photograph on your phone, the photo will await the same on Google Photos.
  • Fast and powerful search: yous tin can search your photos by the people (when yous've enabled face up 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 yous first

What you demand to support photos and videos

  • Proficient Cyberspace connection.
  • File sizes that can be backed up.  Your files won't exist 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 be backed up.
    • Photos: .jpg, .heic, .png, .webp, .gif and some RAW files.
    • Alive photos can be backed upward 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 type not listed hither, it may non 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, you won't be able to back up new files.

Types of RAW files that you tin back up

Canon
EOS-1D X Mark 3, EOS-1D 10 Mark II, EOS-1D X, EOS-1Ds Mark III, EOS-1Ds Mark Ii, EOS-1D Mark Four, EOS-1D Mark Three, EOS-1D Marker Two, EOS-1D C, EOS-1D Mark II North, EOS 5D Mark 4, EOS 5D Marking III, EOS 5D Marking Two, 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 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 Insubordinate T6S/EOS 760D), EOS Buss X10i (EOS Insubordinate 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 Insubordinate SL3/EOS 250D/EOS 200D II), EOS Kiss X9 (EOS Insubordinate SL2/EOS 200D), EOS Kiss X7 (EOS REBEL SL1/EOS 100D), EOS Osculation X5 (EOS REBEL T3i/EOS 600D), EOS Kiss X4 (EOS REBEL T2i/EOS 550D), EOS Kiss X3 (EOS Insubordinate T1i/EOS 500D), EOS Buss 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 Osculation X50 (EOS Insubordinate T3/EOS 1100D), EOS Osculation F (EOS DIGTAL REBEL XS/EOS 1000D), EOS Osculation Digital 10 (EOS DIGITAL REBEL XTi/EOS 400D DIGITAL), EOS Kiss Digital N (EOS DIGITAL REBEL XT/EOS 350D DIGITAL), EOS Buss 1000 (EOS M50), EOS M6 Mark II, EOS M6, EOS M5, EOS M3, EOS M2, EOS M, EOS M10, EOS M200, EOS M100, PowerShot G9 X Marker II, PowerShot G9 X, PowerShot G7 10 Mark III, PowerShot G7 10 Marker 2, PowerShot G7 X, PowerShot G5 X Mark II, PowerShot G5 Ten, PowerShot G3 X, PowerShot G1 Ten Mark III, PowerShot G1 10 Marker 2, PowerShot G1 10, 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, East-M5, E-M10, E-P1, E-P2, E-P3, Eastward-P5, E-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 Mark II, A55, A58, A65, A77, A77 Mark 2, 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 II, RX100, RX100 Mark Two, RX100 Mark 3, RX100 Mark 4

DNG files
All .dng files

Turn back up & sync on or off

Before you start, brand sure that yous're signed in.

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

Support with unrestricted information

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

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

Set a daily back up limit

Troubleshoot issues with Auto-Fill-in

Of import: Support & sync might not work well if you have battery optimisation turned on for the Photos app. If you have this issue, yous tin can plow 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 elevation correct, tap your account profile photograph or initial.
  4. You tin can view if the fill-in is complete or if y'all have items waiting to be backed up. Learn how to fix fill-in issues.

Costs to exist backed upwards

Equally of 1 June 2021, whatsoever new photos or videos that you lot back upwards 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 will continue to count towards your Google Business relationship storage. Acquire more than well-nigh photograph and video backup options.

Each Google Account comes with 15 GB of storage.

Bank check your Google Account storage.

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

Related resource

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

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