diff --git a/web/apps/photos/src/components/Sidebar.tsx b/web/apps/photos/src/components/Sidebar.tsx
index 9e799df3ca..aa586955ab 100644
--- a/web/apps/photos/src/components/Sidebar.tsx
+++ b/web/apps/photos/src/components/Sidebar.tsx
@@ -102,8 +102,8 @@ import {
     isSubscriptionPastDue,
     isSubscriptionStripe,
     leaveFamily,
+    pullUserDetails,
     redirectToCustomerPortal,
-    syncUserDetails,
     userDetailsAddOnBonuses,
     type UserDetails,
 } from "ente-new/photos/services/user-details";
@@ -230,7 +230,7 @@ const UserDetailsSection: React.FC<UserDetailsSectionProps> = ({
     } = useModalVisibility();
 
     useEffect(() => {
-        if (sidebarOpen) void syncUserDetails();
+        if (sidebarOpen) void pullUserDetails();
     }, [sidebarOpen]);
 
     const isNonAdminFamilyMember = useMemo(
diff --git a/web/apps/photos/src/pages/gallery.tsx b/web/apps/photos/src/pages/gallery.tsx
index b41eb83304..9fa258405f 100644
--- a/web/apps/photos/src/pages/gallery.tsx
+++ b/web/apps/photos/src/pages/gallery.tsx
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ import {
 import type { SearchOption } from "ente-new/photos/services/search/types";
 import { initSettings } from "ente-new/photos/services/settings";
 import {
-    initUserDetailsOrTriggerSync,
+    initUserDetailsOrTriggerPull,
     redirectToCustomerPortal,
     userDetailsSnapshot,
     verifyStripeSubscription,
@@ -296,7 +296,7 @@ const Page: React.FC = () => {
                 return;
             }
             initSettings();
-            await initUserDetailsOrTriggerSync();
+            await initUserDetailsOrTriggerPull();
             setupSelectAllKeyBoardShortcutHandler();
             dispatch({ type: "showAll" });
             setIsFirstLoad(isFirstLogin());
diff --git a/web/apps/photos/tests/upload.test.ts b/web/apps/photos/tests/upload.test.ts
index 3a8f30889c..00da88aea2 100644
--- a/web/apps/photos/tests/upload.test.ts
+++ b/web/apps/photos/tests/upload.test.ts
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ import {
     savedCollectionFiles,
     savedCollections,
 } from "ente-new/photos/services/photos-fdb";
-import { getUserDetailsV2 } from "ente-new/photos/services/user-details";
+import { userDetailsSnapshot } from "ente-new/photos/services/user-details";
 
 const DATE_TIME_PARSING_TEST_FILE_NAMES = [
     {
@@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ export async function testUpload() {
 }
 
 async function totalFileCountCheck(expectedState) {
-    const userDetails = await getUserDetailsV2();
+    const userDetails = userDetailsSnapshot();
     if (expectedState.total_file_count === userDetails.fileCount) {
         console.log("file count check passed ✅");
     } else {
diff --git a/web/packages/new/photos/services/ml/index.ts b/web/packages/new/photos/services/ml/index.ts
index 3ec6c44e26..aa73cfa22e 100644
--- a/web/packages/new/photos/services/ml/index.ts
+++ b/web/packages/new/photos/services/ml/index.ts
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ class MLState {
      *
      * - On app start, this is read from local storage during {@link initML}.
      *
-     * - It gets updated when we sync with remote (so if the user
+     * - It gets updated when we pull from remote (so if the user
      *   enables/disables ML on a different device, this local value will also
      *   become true/false).
      *
diff --git a/web/packages/new/photos/services/user-details.ts b/web/packages/new/photos/services/user-details.ts
index e5839edd3d..a8b2392438 100644
--- a/web/packages/new/photos/services/user-details.ts
+++ b/web/packages/new/photos/services/user-details.ts
@@ -183,12 +183,12 @@ export const logoutUserDetails = () => {
  *
  * This assumes that the user is already logged in.
  */
-export const initUserDetailsOrTriggerSync = async () => {
+export const initUserDetailsOrTriggerPull = async () => {
     const saved = await getKV("userDetails");
     if (saved) {
         setUserDetailsSnapshot(UserDetails.parse(saved));
     } else {
-        void syncUserDetails();
+        void pullUserDetails();
     }
 };
 
@@ -231,8 +231,8 @@ const setUserDetailsSnapshot = (snapshot: UserDetails) => {
  * Fetch the user's details from remote and save them in local storage for
  * subsequent lookup, and also update our in-memory snapshots.
  */
-export const syncUserDetails = async () => {
-    const userDetails = await getUserDetailsV2();
+export const pullUserDetails = async () => {
+    const userDetails = await getUserDetails();
     await setKV("userDetails", userDetails);
     setUserDetailsSnapshot(userDetails);
 
@@ -248,7 +248,7 @@ export const syncUserDetails = async () => {
 /**
  * Fetch the user details for the currently logged in user from remote.
  */
-export const getUserDetailsV2 = async () => {
+const getUserDetails = async () => {
     const res = await fetch(await apiURL("/users/details/v2"), {
         headers: await authenticatedRequestHeaders(),
     });
@@ -326,7 +326,7 @@ export const verifyStripeSubscription = async (
             }),
         }),
     );
-    await syncUserDetails();
+    await pullUserDetails();
     return userDetailsSnapshot()!.subscription;
 };
 
@@ -342,7 +342,7 @@ export const activateStripeSubscription = async () => {
             headers: await authenticatedRequestHeaders(),
         }),
     );
-    return syncUserDetails();
+    return pullUserDetails();
 };
 
 /**
@@ -356,7 +356,7 @@ export const cancelStripeSubscription = async () => {
             headers: await authenticatedRequestHeaders(),
         }),
     );
-    return syncUserDetails();
+    return pullUserDetails();
 };
 
 const paymentsAppOrigin = "https://payments.ente.io";
@@ -539,7 +539,8 @@ const getFamiliesTokenAndURL = async () => {
 
 /**
  * Update remote to indicate that the user wants to leave the family plan that
- * they are part of, then our local sync user details with remote.
+ * they are part of, then update our local user details by pulling the latest
+ * ones from remote.
  */
 export const leaveFamily = async () => {
     ensureOk(
@@ -548,7 +549,7 @@ export const leaveFamily = async () => {
             headers: await authenticatedRequestHeaders(),
         }),
     );
-    return syncUserDetails();
+    return pullUserDetails();
 };
 
 /**