New phone, accessing Google photos in camera roll?

[MR_Boogy]

I use Google photos exclusively to backup my photos. I've just got a new phone and obviously there are no photos locally from the past.
When I want to look up a photo to send to a friend in WhatsApp or whatever, none of my google photos show. Some apps will show Google photos as a source but most will only let me use camera roll.

Is there any workaround to this?

 

[bob_zz123]

These apps would be designed to just connect to the system photo picker. There are some apps like Files that let you "plug-in" cloud storage like Google Drive, but there is no equivalent plug-in system for accessing third party photos' apps through the system photo picker.

Perhaps just copy and paste the image(s) from Google Photos would be a workaround? I don't have it but I can imagine it's like hold down on an image in Google Photos -> Copy and then in WhatsApp, hold down in the area where you type a message -> Paste.

 

[MR_Boogy]

These apps would be designed to just connect to the system photo picker. There are some apps like Files that let you "plug-in" cloud storage like Google Drive, but there is no equivalent plug-in system for accessing third party photos' apps through the system photo picker.

Perhaps just copy and paste the image(s) from Google Photos would be a workaround? I don't have it but I can imagine it's like hold down on an image in Google Photos -> Copy and then in WhatsApp, hold down in the area where you type a message -> Paste.

You can definitely save the photo to your phone but then I tend to find it gets synced back to Google and I have multiple copies. I feel there should be an option "restore local copies" but I'm not sure.
Workable but just not as slick, I will have to check if you can copy/paste, not sure on that.