About back up 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 will be accessible from any device where you are logged into your account.
Benefits- Never lose a memory: Any 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 be accessible across any device that you sign in to. If you edit and save a photo on your phone, the photo will look the same on Google Photos.
- Fast and powerful search: You 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.
Before you get started
- Good internet 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 be backed up.
- Photos: .jpg, .heic, .png, .webp, .gif, and some RAW files.
- Live photos can be 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 try to back up a file type not listed here, it may not 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 be able to back up new files.
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There are 2 ways to back up your phone, camera, or storage card from your computer:
- Install Backup and Sync.
- Upload photos from your browser.
Set up Google Drive for desktop
- On your computer, download and install Google Drive for Desktop.
- Sign in to your Google Account.
- Select the folders or pictures you want to back up
Back up to Google Photos.
- Select Done
Save.
Important:
- If you remove a photo or video from your computer that you previously backed up to Google Photos, it stays in Google Photos.
- If you remove a photo or video from Google Photos, it isn't removed from Google Drive or your computer.
- Uploads can be slower and use more storage if you back up to both Google Photos and Google Drive. Unless you need a second copy in Drive, we recommend you back up photos and videos to Google Photos.
Backup and Sync is now Google Drive for desktop.
If you already have Backup and Sync installed, you’ll be migrated to Google Drive for desktop.
To upgrade sooner, uninstall Backup and Sync and then follow the steps above to set up Google Drive for desktop.
Select a different upload size
- On your computer, select Drive for desktop
.
- Click Settings
Preferences.
- At the top right, click Settings
.
- Go to “Google Photos”
Upload size.
- Select your upload size and select Done.
Back up your Apple Photo Library (Mac only)
- On your computer, select Drive for desktop
.
- Click Settings
Preferences.
- At the top right, click Settings
.
- Scroll to “Google Photos”
System Photo Library.
- Turn on Upload photos and videos to Google Photos.
- Select Done.
Tips:
- If you have more than one Apple Photos Library, only the System Photo Library will be backed up. You can use Apple Photos to change the System Photo Library.
- If your Apple Photo Library is synced with iCloud, all photos and videos in your library and cloud will be backed up to Google Photos on macOS 10.15 and above.
Upload items to Google Photos from your browser
- On your computer, open photos.google.com.
- At the top right, click Upload
Computer.
- Find and select your photos.
- Click Open.
You can also drag photos from your computer to the album to upload them to Google Photos. If you drag a photo to a specific album, the photo will be uploaded to that album.
View where your photos & videos were uploaded from
In Google Photos, you can view how you uploaded your photos and videos.
- On your computer, open photos.google.com.
- Click a photo or video.
- At the top right, click Info
.
- Next to File upload
, you’ll find which source uploaded your photo or video. For example, "Uploaded from Android device" or "Uploaded from Google Drive."
- File upload
won’t show if we don’t know the upload source.
- File upload