Gallery photos deleted after "album merge"

[TMallard]

I just had all the photos from the past month -- including travel to Asia -- disappear off my phone after a "album merge" of "Camera" and most of the photos in the album "screenshots" after "album merge

[nullandvoid]

Check Google photos. Your photos shoud have ben backing up to Google.
Albums don't usually merge unless there are two albums with the same name.