About your Google Photos activity & storage The photos and videos you save in Google Photos will use up space in your Google Account. This space is a cloud storage where you can keep your photos and videos with these qualities: Storage saver Original quality Express quality You get up to 15 GB of storage or you can buy more. The activity-based personalization setting allows Google Photos to show you even more personalized memories based on how you interact with features in Photos. To further personalize your memories experience, Photos uses information like the types of memories you view or skip. If they're backed up to Google Photos, photos and videos removed from your computer stay in Google Photos. If you remove a photo or video from Google Photos, it isn't removed from Google Drive or your computer. How to free up space in Drive, Gmail, and Photos. Photos and videos backed up in Original quality count toward your Google Account storage. Learn how to change your backup quality, and learn more about storage plans. You can automatically save your photos and videos to your Google Account when you turn on backup. You can access your saved photos and videos from any device you’re signed in to. Your backed-up photos and videos are private and viewable only by you on your signed-in devices unless shared. You can share photos, videos, albums, and highlight videos with any of your contacts, even if they don't use the Google Photos app. Before you As I understand it, all Google Photos are stored in Albums (even if they don't appear to be). Therefore, in order to list all photos, you must parse all of your albums, listing the photos in each one. The GET call to list your Google Photos albums is. The GET call to list all photos within an album is: Official Google Photos Help Center where you can find tips and tutorials on using Google Photos and other answers to frequently asked questions. Back up device folders: If you want to find photos and videos on your Android phone from other apps or devices in your Google Photos Account, make sure you turn on your available device folders. When to back up: Make sure you know when Google Photos backs up your photos and videos. You can choose to back up items over mobile data.