I'm also completely confused. It states: Download the new Google Photos today for uninterrupted access to all your photos, videos and albums. If you don’

I'm also completely confused. It states: Download the new Google Photos today for uninterrupted access to all your photos, videos and albums. If you don’t update to the new Google Photos, Google+ Photos on Android will soon stop working, but your photos and videos will still remain safely stored... I'm actually so glad I didn't decide to use Google Picasa as a safe backup option for my photos. I'm not sure I can trust Google to take care of my data. I have now been moved from Picasa, to Google+ Photos to +Google Photos, which I assume at some point will be renamed again to *Google-+Photos=WTF I don't want an app on my phone, because I don't want a Google app to be randomly uploading photos from my phone to it's servers. So, if I don't have an mobile app, has anything actually changed? I just want a Google website app that allows me to: - Present photos in albums (that I name and sort) nicely - Share those photos with selective friends and family using a URL that I can revoke (like Flickr does) - Explore where my photos were taken on a map - Allow comments on photos without friends and family having to have some kind of Google account I use my phone like a camera. I connect it to my computer with a USB cable, download the photos and then organise and sort them, then selectively upload them. I want to have that control. I don't want to upload everything. Why does everything have to be an app these days? My perfect photo app would be open source. There is no good open source alternative. All open source photos web apps are poor. I've tried them all. I love the Google+ Photos interface. Bright, white and big photos in a mosaic. Flickr used to be good, then it decided to go all black and depressing. TroveBox and Lychee are the closest, but Trovebox (Open Photo) has a very problematic install and Lychee is missing the Amazon S3 storage option). No app offers encrypted at rest storage, which these days should be a must. I've read several times that "there is no money in consumer photo apps", but personally I'm paying Flickr a subscription and Google and Dropbox, when none of them really provide me with what I want. I'd happily pay a license fee for some open source software that actually did the job, and which I knew wasn't going to "sunset" after two years. </end rant>