[Sargos]

It's not going to be easy to just put Google Photos on Android TV. Android TV has no concept of accounts or privacy so the only way it could really work right now is to either open up the entire user's photos to anyone currently using the TV or invent some sort of hard to use scheme such as only displaying photos "tagged" a certain way as public/tv which most people probably won't do. Or they could ask for a PIN each time which is annoying.

Solving that issue is going to take a re-work of the Android TV user experience. A lot of apps have this problem such as Drive, Dropbox, Docs, etc. There's no current way to have an app with personal data be usable on a public device like a TV.

>or the big one, the fact that GSuite accounts are crippled and the majority of new products cannot be used by those with GSuite accounts or can only be used in a severely crippled way.

You have to remember that GSuite, as an app for businesses and education, has a lot more restraints and big hairy legal and ethical issues for every single feature than the consumer versions of the apps. Each thing Google makes needs to be looked at from a very different angle and lots of decisions have to be made for it to be made available for business use. The use cases are very different. Money is handled differently. Lots of access controls need to be created for admins in each app available in GSuite. It's not a trivial amount of work.

[euyyn]

Can you cast photos from the Photos app in your phone?

[Sargos]

Yes. Which makes sense because you are actively sharing them and can end the display whenever you want. No privacy issues.

[euyyn]

Sounds like the appropriate solution for OP's use case of the wife looking at them on the TV.