[hirako2000]

You are correct it is possible to upload avif files into Google Photo. But you lose the view and of course the thumbnail. Defeating the whole purpose of putting them into Photo.

Given it's an app, they didn't even need Google chrome to add support. Avif is supported on Android natively.

[magicalist]

> You are correct it is possible to upload avif files into Google Photo. But you lose the view and of course the thumbnail.

I'm not sure what you mean. They appear to act like any other photo in the interface. You can view them and they're visible in the thumbnail view, but maybe I'm misinterpreting what you mean?

[hirako2000]

Or perhaps I don't see what you see.

I take a photo, the format is jpeg. It backs up to Google photo, the Google photo app on Android renders the photo just fine.

I then convert that photo (via a local converter) to AVIF, Google backs it up, I can see the file in Google Photo on Android but it doesn't render the image. That being full size or thumbnail, all I get is a grayed square. So I concluded the app doesn't support avif rasterizing.

I then gave up on the automation that converted all my jpeg into avif, which in turn would have saved hundred of gigabytes given I have 10y worth of photos.

The experiment was done about 3 months ago, as of 2025 Google Photo on Android, latest version, would not render my AVIF photos.