Where Are Android Camera Photos Stored?
Android camera photo folder (DCIM/Camera) in internal storage, and why it looks different over USB.
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Stock camera apps save to DCIM, then Camera, in internal shared storage. File managers show it as Internal storage/DCIM/Camera.
Over USB the same files appear under the phone name with MTP paths. The raw on device path is /storage/emulated/0/DCIM/Camera, which is the same folder behind a symlink.
Where Android stores this, by platform
/storage/emulated/0/DCIM/Camera
Samsung and some vendors add siblings like DCIM/Screenshots for screenshots. SD card setups may use a second DCIM on the card when the camera is set to save there.
Frequently asked questions
Why do missing photos show in the gallery but not over USB?
The media database is out of sync, or a third party app wrote an emulated path variant. Reboot or rescan media, then check DCIM/Camera in a file manager on the phone itself.
Where do screenshots go instead?
Usually Pictures/Screenshots (Pixel) or DCIM/Screenshots (Samsung). Camera photos stay in DCIM/Camera either way.
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