Google is looking to offer more experience for RAW images in the app. To recall, in Pixel phones, enabling the Camera app’s RAW+JPEG capture results in an on-device “Raw” folder.
Currently, taking RAW shots make the same folder name by default has “Backup” disabled even if the main upload is turned on. As they are not stored in the cloud, these RAW pictures don’t appear in the main Photos feed/tab.
In the latest version 6.20 of Google Photos, the new changes will always surface RAW pictures. Expect the following prompt to appear once live.
<string name=”photos_raw_burst_tooltip_title”>You can now access the RAW photo here</string>
If you have both general and Raw folder Backup enabled, RAW images will apparently “no longer be saved in this folder.”
