{
  "id": 14722959,
  "title": "Microsoft’s new Photos app combines your PC, OneDrive, and iCloud galleries",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/15/microsofts-new-photos-app-combines-your-pc-onedrive-and-icloud",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-10-15T14:53:38.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Verge",
    "slug": "the-verge",
    "url": "https://www.theverge.com/tech/1012003/microsoft-windows-11-new-photos-app-onedrive-icloud"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Microsoft has updated its Photos app for Windows 11, streamlining access to photos and videos across various platforms. The redesigned editor and viewer consolidate images from your PC, OneDrive, and iCloud into a unified gallery, enhancing ease of management and viewing. This central gallery allows users to browse by date, organize albums, share content, search through descriptions or recognized individuals, and view files both online and offline. The Photos app now launches 25% faster and offers improved scrolling performance. Microsoft has rebuilt the editing tools, grouping them into four categories: Crop, Enhance, Repair, and Stylize. The app maintains HDR quality during editing, supports HEIC and WebP image formats without changing their original format, and now displays a cleaner, faster layout. It also opens HEIC images up to 30% quicker. Additionally, the app supports SVG files. These improvements are set to roll out as an update for Windows Insider users, with a full launch expected later this year for all Windows 11 devices.",
  "summary": "Microsoft has redesigned its Photos app for Windows 11, overhauling the editor and image viewer, and combining photos and videos from your PC, OneDrive, and iCloud into a single space. The new combined gallery experience aims to make it easier to manage and view your photos without jumping between apps or devices, while also improving […]",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}