So i bought a new phone and I want to download all photos from google photos onto it, but I can only see the option to download the photos one by one, so is there a way to download them all at once?

When I was young and didn’t know much about using Google, I synced my email and Google photos to the iPad I had at the time and it ate away at a LOT of my gmail storage, so I eventually unsynced the device.

Now, Google photos still send me notifications saying things like “take a look back at March 2018” and if I click it it’ll show me old photos that I’m not sure I have on my phone, but if I open the app independently it’s completely empty, like photos?? Girl you’re not synced we don’t know who you are we don’t have any photos GIRL YES YOU DO YOU KEEP TELLING ME ABOUT IT JUST GIVR ME MY OLD PHOTOS BACK

I apologise for my frustrations. There’s some old photos I want to save onto my phone but Google is pretending we haven’t known each other for a decade

I'm currently using capcut (as limited as it may be I have the most experience with it) but I know there are far better apps/softwares I could use

So I recently upgraded from Android 8 (Huawei p20 lite) to android 14 (Motorola g84). On my old phone there was already a app to view the photos in that I've taken, but on my new phone all the photos show up on google photo. The new phone don't have its own app to view them in. I had to download google gallery (I don't like the google photo app + there is only so many pictures you can save there without having to pay, even though my phone has like 200 GB of internal storage). But why is it like this. I know I can find the photos under files, DCIM etc., but there isn't an app that's not google that you can easily view them in.