Photos only in the backend

A small cloud at the top right of a photo means: the full file is in your storage, and this phone holds a 720 px copy of it. Everything you know about the photo is here; the big file is one tap away.

• It was brought back from your storage onto a phone that did not have the file. See a new phone.
• A photo that is on the phone never gets the mark, even when it is also in the storage. The mark is about this phone lacking the file.
• The 720 px copy lives inside the app, not in your photo folders. Other apps do not see it, the sync never takes it for a new photo, and the backup never sends it up again.

• Finding it: by words, meaning, printed text, people, place, date, folder. It is in your index like any other.
• Viewing it full screen, swiping through results, zooming into the 720 px copy.
• Its details, its place, its people, its tags and your wording: all there, all editable.
• Sharing: the 720 px copy is shared.
• Videos and PDFs never carry the mark: a new phone receives them as their original files.

An item another phone added that this phone has not brought down yet opens on a dark page that says Not on this phone yet, with Download under it when a backend is set.

• The photo editor, setting it as wallpaper, deleting it: these need the file on the phone. Their buttons are not shown; Download is in their place.
• In the details, a line says where the full copy is and how big it is, with a Download button. See Download.
• After the download the mark goes, the 720 px copy is removed, and the photo is a normal photo on this phone. To do it for every such photo at once, see Download all originals.