I use to send pictures over the camera wifi from my Sony W500 to my phone. The main purpose is backup (think I'm in the middle of nowhere or with little internet for days) and then to send them to friends with WhatsApp. If I'm at home I pull the SD card and read it from my laptop. It's quicker.

I do it all the time for different reasons:

- have a local backup - being able to see them from a larger screen - being able to share them - sync them to home while I am away

I don't upload anything to google photos or apple cloud.

Yep, and having location data is really useful for organizing said photos.

I think it's really neat Google Photos lets you see all photos taken at a particular location. One of my pet peeves is when friends share photos with me that we took together at a gathering and only the ones I took with my phone show up in that list unless I manually add location data. (Inaccurate timestamps are an even more annoying related issue.)