topic Re: What is the Photos app for? in M Series

What is the Photos app for?

Ruth7 — Sun, 27 Nov 2016 19:23:04 GMT

After restoring my cellphone to factory settings I see an app called Photos.
What's the point of it? All my Photos go straight to my album.

NeoBeum — Sun, 27 Nov 2016 20:55:19 GMT

Is it Google photos? You can get rid of the google app.

CameronT — Mon, 28 Nov 2016 00:07:50 GMT

Both Album and Photos are able to view the photos that are stored on your phone. None of your photos are actually stored in Album.

Photos has the added benefit of allowing you to back up your photos to your Google account, and access them from any browser at photos.google.com.

Ruth7 — Sat, 03 Dec 2016 09:05:11 GMT

Yes - it's the Google photos app. So I can delete it without it harming anything else?

NeoBeum — Tue, 13 Dec 2016 03:50:28 GMT

@Ruth7 wrote:
Yes - it's the Google photos app. So I can delete it without it harming anything else?

Yes, you'll probably save some battery and data if you had it syncing to Google drive before too.