I have an example from before the new version of the Photos app came out. This might have changed since then.

If I take a bunch of photos and then send some of them through Hangouts before I get home to my WiFi those photos doesn't get backed up. I'm guessing it's because Hangouts uses G+ albums for the photos, so technically the photos are on Google's servers, but they're not where I expect them to be (in Auto backup).

I have the same experience with videos

scenario: uploading a bunch of video files all named in the same pattern

when coming back to the google photo interface to put those files in the same group, searching their name does not return the full list, only part of it.

Only by searching "recently added" I can then find and add the missing files.

If I could ask for features:

- show the file name when you select an item

- allow to search file name by regex

Haven't tried that yet, but I moved over to iOS so this is not relevant anymore, but thanks.