Is Your Pc Drowning In Photos? Microsoft's New Onedrive App Can Help - Try It Now

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ZDNET's cardinal takeaways

• The caller OneDrive Windows app tin thief negociate your photos.
• The caller app is already disposable successful Windows 10 and 11 for you to try.
• An upcoming caller Photos Agent uses Copilot AI to find circumstantial photos.

I threat a batch of photos that I shop not conscionable connected my telephone but connected my Windows PC. And pinch much than 15,000 photos successful my library, I could usage a helping manus managing them all. Now, Microsoft is providing that thief pinch a mates of caller devices heading to Windows 11.

First up is simply a caller OneDrive Windows app. Currently, Windows 10 and 11 some connection constricted options for interacting pinch your section photos and different files successful OneDrive. You tin position and negociate your folders and files. You tin tweak different settings done nan OneDrive strategy tray icon. But that's astir it.

The caller OneDrive Windows app provides a friendlier and much elastic overview of your OneDrive storage. Though nan app is designed to activity pinch each your OneDrive files, it pays typical attraction to your photos. With its much unified layout, as described by Microsoft, nan app lets you move among different views, including Moments, Gallery, Albums, People, and Favorites.

If those views sound familiar, that's because OneDrive for nan web uses nan aforesaid menus and features. The quality is that you'll beryllium capable to usage nan app straight wrong Windows alternatively than having to browse to your OneDrive retention tract to return advantage of nan enhanced layout.

Views

• The Moments view: Automatically highlights cardinal photos taken connected circumstantial dates a twelvemonth successful nan past. You tin take a circumstantial date, shuffle done different moments, and position an AI-generated slideshow of memorable photos.
• The Gallery view: Displays each your photos chronologically. Just scroll down to spell backmost successful clip done nan months and years. Here, you're capable to zoom successful and retired and alteration nan look and layout of nan screen.
• Albums view: Shows you each nan albums you've created for your photos. From this screen, you tin besides create a caller medium and prime nan photos you wish to include.
• The People view: Lets you spot photos of circumstantial people. Select a personification to spot their photos aliases adhd nan sanction of personification to hunt for related photos.
• The Favorites view: Shows photos you've tagged arsenic favorites.

With immoderate of nan views, you tin hover complete a photograph to position accusation connected it, delete it, stock it, aliases tag it arsenic a favorite. Opening a circumstantial photograph allows you to delete it, download it, stock it, adhd it to an album, aliases edit it. The photograph editor offers a basal but useful group of devices done which you tin harvest a photo, set nan brightness and different elements, use a filter, aliases people it up pinch text.

Each surface besides features a useful hunt tool. Here, conscionable participate a connection aliases word based connected nan photos you want to find. In response, nan app displays each nan applicable photos successful your library.

For now, nan app is only capable to activity pinch your cloud-based files. But Microsoft is processing it further truthful that you'll beryllium capable to position and negociate your section photos and different files arsenic well.

How to access

What's particularly cool is that nan app is already disposable for you to try, some successful Windows 10 and 11. To entree it via File Explorer, caput to C:\Users\[your username]\AppData\Local\Microsoft\OneDrive. You should spot a record called OneDrive.App.exe. If not, caput to C:\Program Files\Microsoft OneDrive instead. Open nan OneDrive.App.exe and you'll spot nan caller app and beryllium capable to cheque retired each its features.

Presumably, Microsoft will amended merge nan caller app into Windows astatine immoderate constituent truthful that you won't person to hunt done File Explorer to motorboat it.

Photos Agent and more

Next up is simply a caller instrumentality called Photos Agent that taps into Copilot. Using nan built-in AI, you tin find and stock your favourite photos. Copilot will thief you way down circumstantial photos by sanction and different criteria. You're past capable to create albums and stock them pinch family and friends. The caller Photos Agent will get soon for Microsoft 365 Copilot for Windows and nan web, arsenic good arsenic for Microsoft 365 Premium subscribers.

Finally, a mates of caller devices are rolling retired soon for nan OneDrive mobile app for some iOS and Android. The AI mobile editing instrumentality lets you tweak photos connected your mobile instrumentality utilizing different styles. The Photo Stacks instrumentality displays blurry aliases copy photos successful a azygous stack. From there, Microsoft 365 subscribers will beryllium capable to cleanable up those photos based connected nan AI's suggestions.