diff --git a/web/apps/photos/src/pages/gallery.tsx b/web/apps/photos/src/pages/gallery.tsx
index 9fa258405f..77174822c9 100644
--- a/web/apps/photos/src/pages/gallery.tsx
+++ b/web/apps/photos/src/pages/gallery.tsx
@@ -821,7 +821,7 @@ const Page: React.FC = () => {
                 // 2. Construct a fake a metadata object with the updates
                 //    reflected in it.
                 //
-                // 3. The caller (eventually) triggers a remote sync in the
+                // 3. The caller (eventually) triggers a remote pull in the
                 //    background, but meanwhile uses this updated metadata.
                 //
                 // TODO(RE): Replace with file fetch?
diff --git a/web/apps/photos/src/pages/shared-albums.tsx b/web/apps/photos/src/pages/shared-albums.tsx
index b6b5ce3c8c..8daa9c897e 100644
--- a/web/apps/photos/src/pages/shared-albums.tsx
+++ b/web/apps/photos/src/pages/shared-albums.tsx
@@ -362,7 +362,7 @@ export default function PublicCollectionGallery() {
                 setPublicCollection(null);
                 setPublicFiles(null);
             } else {
-                log.error("failed to sync public album with remote", e);
+                log.error("Public album remote pull failed", e);
             }
         } finally {
             hideLoadingBar();
diff --git a/web/packages/gallery/services/file-data.ts b/web/packages/gallery/services/file-data.ts
index 6e456fa122..f9434b5389 100644
--- a/web/packages/gallery/services/file-data.ts
+++ b/web/packages/gallery/services/file-data.ts
@@ -196,8 +196,8 @@ export interface UpdatedFileDataFileIDsPage {
     fileIDs: Set<number>;
     /**
      * The latest updatedAt (epoch microseconds) time obtained from remote in
-     * this batch of sync (from amongst all of the files in the batch, not just
-     * those that were filtered to be part of {@link fileIDs}).
+     * this batch being fetched (from amongst all of the files in the batch, not
+     * just those that were filtered to be part of {@link fileIDs}).
      */
     lastUpdatedAt: number;
 }
diff --git a/web/packages/new/photos/components/gallery/reducer.ts b/web/packages/new/photos/components/gallery/reducer.ts
index c06edaa990..6febb458ea 100644
--- a/web/packages/new/photos/components/gallery/reducer.ts
+++ b/web/packages/new/photos/components/gallery/reducer.ts
@@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ export interface GalleryState {
      * Unsynced modifications are those whose effects have already been made on
      * remote (so thus they have been "saved", so to say), but we still haven't
      * yet refreshed our local state to incorporate them. The refresh will
-     * happen on the next "file sync", until then they remain as in-memory state
+     * happen on the next files pull, until then they remain as in-memory state
      * in the reducer.
      */
     collectionFiles: EnteFile[];
@@ -318,9 +318,9 @@ export interface GalleryState {
      * the user's favorites, false otherwise) which should be used for that file
      * instead of what we get from our local DB.
      *
-     * The next time a sync with remote completes, we clear this map since
-     * thereafter just deriving {@link favoriteFileIDs} from our local files
-     * would reflect the correct state on remote too.
+     * The next time a remote pull completes, we clear this map since thereafter
+     * just deriving {@link favoriteFileIDs} from our local files would reflect
+     * the correct state on remote too.
      */
     unsyncedFavoriteUpdates: Map<number, boolean>;
     /**
@@ -338,9 +338,9 @@ export interface GalleryState {
      * Each entry from a file ID to the magic metadata that should be used for
      * that file instead of what we get from our local DB.
      *
-     * The next time a sync with remote completes, we clear this map since
-     * thereafter the synced files themselves will reflect the latest private
-     * magic metadata.
+     * The next time a remote pull completes, we clear this map since thereafter
+     * the synced files themselves will reflect the latest private magic
+     * metadata.
      */
     unsyncedPrivateMagicMetadataUpdates: Map<
         number,
diff --git a/web/packages/new/photos/services/pull.ts b/web/packages/new/photos/services/pull.ts
index 7061791bc5..0e8bb9491c 100644
--- a/web/packages/new/photos/services/pull.ts
+++ b/web/packages/new/photos/services/pull.ts
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ interface PullFilesOpts {
  * This is a subset of a full remote pull, independently exposed for use at
  * times when we only want to pull the file related information (e.g. we just
  * made some API request that modified collections or files, and so now want to
- * sync our local changes to match remote).
+ * update our local changes to match remote).
  *
  * See also: [Note: Remote pull]
  *