Photos And Data

[Bazile]

On my Android phone I have two apps where photos appear when taken.
One is called "Gallery' and the other is called 'Photos'

The 'Photos' app appears to be from where the photos are backed up to the cloud

My question is - does the 'Photos' app use a lot of data when it is backing up or when you are using it to delete photos etc ?

[Buenchico]

As a fairly new user to an Android smartphone myself, I've often wondered about the difference between 'Photos' and 'Gallery'. Your post has spurred me into asking that nice Mr Google to explain things for me, resulting in me finding this:
https://www.androidcentral.com/gallery-or-photos-android-which-should-you-use
(You might also find it worth a read).

If an app simply does something on your phone (like deleting unwanted pics) then it won't use any of your data allowance. However if it uploads something to the cloud, or downloads it from there, it will use however much data the picture takes up. That will depend up how many megapixels the phone's camera has got and also on any relevant settings for that camera. However, as a very rough guide, a photo taken using the best quality settings on a top-of-the-range phone might have a file size of around 8 MB, whereas a more basic camera on a cheaper phone might only produce images with file sizes of around 2 MB.

[Prudie]

On my phone the Photos only contains photos I have taken with my phone whereas the gallery shows all those plus any pictures that have been sent to me via whatsapp or instagram by friends/family. when I had a Samsung Galaxy I could only delete my own photos when I was connected to the internet which I thought a cheek, especially as I did not use any cloud storage as far as I'm aware.

[Guilbert53]

>>>especially as I did not use any cloud storage as far as I'm aware.

You probably did without your knowledge.

An Android phone will automatically upload photos on a phone to "Google Photos" on the internet.

If you go to Google Photos on the web and logon with the gmail address you used on your phone you may find loads of photos and videos there.

https://www.google.com/photos/about/

[kvalidir]

I just looked on my cloud and I have all of my photos backed up to my Gmail account which is on my android, but literally all of them which are in gallery, whereas photos only has some as Prudie says. I didn't do this manually I'm assuming that it's either a Gmail thing or from the Gallery app on the phone itself.