docs: correct the Play tags to the ones that exist in Play taxonomy

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### Category and tags
- **Category:** Tools (alternative: Photography — *Tools* matches the one-job utility framing
better, and Photography is more crowded). Choose the category **first**: the *Suggested tags*
list is influenced by it.
- **Tags:** Play allows a **maximum of five**, and they can only be chosen from Play's own list
(*Suggested tags*, then *Search tags* / the category filter / *Other tags*) — there is no free
text. Apply them under **Store settings › App category › Manage tags**, in this order:
better, and Photography is more crowded). Choose the category **first**: it shapes the
*Suggested tags* list.
- **Tags:** a **maximum of five**, chosen from Play's own list (*Suggested tags*, then *Search
tags* / the category filter / *Other tags*) — there is no free text, and using **fewer than five
is fine**: Google asks for the *most* relevant tags, and a tag a user cannot connect to the
listing costs more than a missing one.
| # | Tag | Why it is unambiguously true of this app |
The live list (checked 2026-10-14) contains **no cleanup-specific vocabulary at all** — no
*Storage*, *Photo cleanup*, *Duplicate photos*, *Photo management* or *Photo gallery*. Across
the whole photo domain Play offers only *Photography*, *Photo editor* and *Photo frame*, so
exactly one tag is both available and honest:
| Tag | Verdict | Reason |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | **Duplicate photos** | The literal function, and the phrase a user types into search. |
| 2 | **Photo cleanup** | How the short and full description frame the job ("find and remove"). |
| 3 | **Photo management** | Google's own one-line description of the *Photography* category is "Cameras, photo editing tools, **photo management**, and sharing" — so this tag matches their taxonomy wording. |
| 4 | **Storage** | The benefit the listing leads with: `03-results.png` shows 17 groups and 83.5 MB reclaimable. |
| 5 | **Photo gallery** | The thing being managed; swap it if *Suggested tags* offers something closer. |
| **Photography** | ✅ use | The app's subject *is* the user's photo library, and someone who reads "find duplicate photos" sees immediately why the tag is there. This is the only photo-domain tag that applies. Available while the category is *Tools*; if the category is *Photography* it is the category itself and therefore redundant. |
| **Privacy & security** | ⚠️ optional | Defensible: the listing *leads* with "no internet permission at all", "no account, no tracking, no analytics", and that is visible to an unfamiliar user — Google's test. But it pulls in people browsing privacy tools who are not after a photo cleaner. Add it only if that discovery surface is wanted. |
| *anything else* | ❌ | Nothing else in the list describes this app; see below. |
If a *Suggested tag* is a better match than #4 or #5, take the suggestion — the full taxonomy
is only visible inside the Console, so those two are the interchangeable ones. Google's
guidance is to leave the tags alone afterwards and re-evaluate only if the app's functionality
changes significantly; edits take up to 24 h to appear.
Tags cannot express *"duplicate"* at all, so **search discovery rests on the title and short
description keywords**, which already say "duplicate photos" — not on this field.
- **Tags deliberately not used** — each would be either off-target or actively misleading:
*Photo editing*, *Camera*, *Video*, *Backup*.
The app cannot edit, cannot take photos and does not scan videos
([README › Known limitations](../README.md#known-limitations)), and a *Backup* tag would
contradict the "no uploads, no internet permission" promise the description is built on.
Google's test is whether an unfamiliar user can see why the tag is relevant from the listing —
for these, they cannot.
- **Tags deliberately not used:** *Photo editor*, *Photo frame*, *Camera*, *Video editing*,
*Video players & editors*, *Network connectivity*, *Wi-Fi*, *Virtual private network (VPN)*.
The app cannot edit or take photos and does not scan videos
([README › Known limitations](../README.md#known-limitations)), and a connectivity tag would
contradict the merged manifest, which declares no `INTERNET` permission. *Photo editor* is the
tempting one — it is what most duplicate-photo apps tag themselves as — but a user arriving from
it expects editing tools, which is a one-star review on a listing that has no ratings to absorb
one yet.
- **Accessibility tags: none (yet).** They are a compatibility *claim* and the UI does not earn
one: `ui/components/PhotoThumbnail.kt` holds the only `contentDescription` in the app, and the
scan-progress text has no `liveRegion`, so progress is not announced automatically. TalkBack