Microsoft Photos

‪Microsoft Corporation‬

View and edit your photos and videos, make movies, and create albums. Try video remix to instantly create a video from photos and videos you select. Use the video editor for fine-tuned adjustments — change filters, text, camera motion, music, and more. You can even add 3D effects like butterflies, lasers, or explosions that magically appear in your video.

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Microsoft Photos

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Available on

Xbox One

HoloLens

PC Mobile device

Hub

Description

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What's new in this version

• Search your photo collection for people, places, and things that are automatically tagged for you. • Create new video projects that combine your photos and videos with music, filters, text, and effects. Use the new video editor to control all the details. • Draw on a video and attach the ink to an object in the shot, to follow its movement as the video rolls. • Add 3D effects to your videos, like a swarm of butterflies, lightning, or a fireball! • Use video remix to instantly create a video from photos and videos you select. Remix your video again to change the pacing, style, and music. • Remix an album to view it as a video. Remix again for new music, style, and content combos. • Check out videos made for you from your photos and video clips, then remix or edit, and share them with others. • When browsing your collection, make images smaller for quicker scrolling, or larger for more detail. • Improved navigation and design. • Bug fixes. Tell us what features you’d like to see next by clicking ... > Settings > Send feedback.

Features

PC only
Crop and rotate photos, adjust lighting and color, add filters and other effects.
Trim video clips, and upload them to YouTube, or other social apps.
Create new videos from photos and video clips, with music, filters, and other effects.
Search your collection for people, places, and things that are automatically tagged for you.
Draw on a photo or video, and share an animated playback of your drawing.
Edit your video project to change music, camera motion, text, filters, and more.
Add 3D effects to videos, like a swarm of bees, lightning, or a fireball!
Enjoy albums and videos created for you automatically--edit and save the ones you like.
Remix videos to instantly change the look and feel--recombining images, music, and styles.
Remix an album to view it as a video. Remix again for new music, style, and content combos.
When browsing your collection, make images smaller for quicker scrolling, or larger for more detail.
Fix red eyes and blemishes in photos.
PC, Mobile, Xbox, Surface Hub and Holographic
View photos, videos, and albums from all your devices in one place using OneDrive.
View images as a slideshow.
Set a photo as your desktop background or lock screen image.

Additional information

Published by

Microsoft Corporation

Copyright

Developed by

Microsoft Corporation

Release date

10/10/2014

Approximate size

346.04 MB

Age rating

Not Rated

This app can

Access all your files, peripheral devices, apps, programs and registry
Use your webcam
Use your microphone
Define enterprise-specific policies for your device
Use data stored on an external storage device
Use your video library
Use your pictures library
Access your Internet connection and act as a server.
Access your home or work networks
storeAppInstallation
storeAppInstall
Use your music library
Use your contacts
Read contact information
Access your Internet connection
thumbnailCache
previewStore
Close themselves and their own windows, and delay the closing of their app
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Permissions info

Installation

Get this app while signed in to your Microsoft account and install on your Windows 10 devices.

Language supported

English (United States)
English (United Kingdom)
Afrikaans (Suid-Afrika)
አማርኛ (ኢትዮጵያ)
العربية (المملكة العربية السعودية)
Azərbaycan Dili (Azərbaycan)
Беларуская (Беларусь)
Български (България)
বাংলা (বাংলাদেশ)
Català (Català)
Čeština (Česká Republika)
Dansk (Danmark)
Deutsch (Deutschland)
Ελληνικά (Ελλάδα)
Español (España, Alfabetización Internacional)
Español (México)
Eesti (Eesti)
Euskara (Euskara)
فارسى (ایران)
Suomi (Suomi)
Filipino (Pilipinas)
Français (Canada)
Français (France)
Galego (Galego)
Hausa (Najeriya)
עברית (ישראל)
हिंदी (भारत)
Hrvatski (Hrvatska)
Magyar (Magyarország)
Indonesia (Indonesia)
Íslenska (Ísland)
Italiano (Italia)
日本語 (日本)
Қазақ Тілі (Қазақстан)
ភាសាខ្មែរ (កម្ពុជា)
ಕನ್ನಡ (ಭಾರತ)
한국어(대한민국)
ລາວ (ລາວ)
Lietuvių (Lietuva)
Latviešu (Latvija)
Македонски (Република Македонија)
മലയാളം (ഇന്ത്യ)
Bahasa Melayu (Malaysia)
Norsk Bokmål (Norge)
Nederlands (Nederland)
Polski (Polska)
Português (Brasil)
Português (Portugal)
Română (România)
Русский (Россия)
Slovenčina (Slovensko)
Slovenščina (Slovenija)
Shqip (Shqipëri)
Srpski (Srbija)
Svenska (Sverige)
Kiswahili (Kenya)
தமிழ் (இந்தியா)
తెలుగు (భారత దేశం)
ไทย (ไทย)
Türkçe (Türkiye)
Українська (Україна)
O‘Zbek (Oʻzbekiston)
Tiếng Việt (Việt Nam)
中文(中国)
中文(台灣)

Publisher Info

Microsoft Photos support

Additional terms

Xbox Live code of conduct
Microsoft Photos privacy policy
Terms of transaction

Seizure warnings

Photosensitive seizure warning

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System Requirements

Minimum
Your device must meet all minimum requirements to open this product
OS	Windows 10 version 17134.0 or higher, Xbox One, Windows 10 Mobile version 10581.0 or higher
Architecture	ARM, x64, x86

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Most helpful favorable review

bobby

3/30/2016

10, 10 being best on 1-10 scale

very easy to use for a basic pc user as myself. I like to save pictures from when I surf the web and Microsoft Photos lets me do it with a couple of clicks & that`s it. Then there are many options to use for viewing & sharing.

7 out of 7 people found this helpful.

Most helpful critical review

Nathan

7/29/2020

Recent update broke the app

After the latest update, the photos app crashes very often. Even just trying to open a picture, it crashes half the time or opens and displays a blank screen. It was decent before the last update, now I can't even use it.

101 out of 120 people found this helpful.

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Reviewed ByNathan

7/29/2020

Review title of NathanRecent update broke the app

115 out of 135 people found this helpful.

Reviewed ByMary

7/29/2020

Review title of MaryFails and Crashes Since Recent Update

No amount of repairing, refreshing, or uninstalling and reinstalling, will allow me to use this app without an inevitable failure and crash since a recent update.

11 out of 11 people found this helpful.

Reviewed ByBrent

7/26/2020

Review title of BrentMicrosoft Photos often crashes

Microsoft Photos used to work. Today, Microsoft Photos sometimes loads the pictures and other times the Microsoft Photos takes a long time to load and then Microsoft Photos crashes.

56 out of 66 people found this helpful.

Reviewed BySean

7/24/2020

Review title of SeanBecame crappy

Since the last update within the last week, the program has become ****, it takes forever to load a picture, it will freeze or shut off, and you have to go in and restart it, reset it or repair it at least once or twice an hour.

26 out of 29 people found this helpful.

Reviewed BySteve

7/26/2020

Review title of SteveTrash

Constantly crashes since a recent update. You can't view photos at all. 100% grade A garbage. Fix this mess and test your products before pushing updates.

21 out of 24 people found this helpful.

Reviewed ByUnknown

7/27/2020

Review title of UnknownBeware!

The recent update completely brakes this app, causing it to sometimes open pictures from file explorer with a blank/black screen (depending if you're using light or dark theme). If you haven't installed latest update please hold off until this is fixed!

82 out of 107 people found this helpful.

Reviewed ByWolfen

7/25/2020

Review title of WolfenNot Working

This app doesn't work.

56 out of 78 people found this helpful.

Reviewed ByHal

7/30/2020

Review title of Halterrible

Every update causes chaos. In today's world, I would think that people could do their jobs better. This is ridiculous.

8 out of 9 people found this helpful.

Reviewed ByJohn

7/27/2020

Review title of JohnBad performance made me give up on this app

I like the basic functionality of this app. I mostly use it as an image viewer so I'm not that familiar with the organization features. The major problem is performance. It takes forever to load an image once I open it and more often than not lately the image doesn't load at all and I end up just closing a blank window. I like the design and features of this photo app more than any other I've tried on Windows, but if it fails to open images half the time there's no point. I ended up uninstalling through powershell.

8 out of 9 people found this helpful.

Reviewed ByKameron

8/4/2020

Review title of KameronFreezes / won't load pics

How is it that a simple app whose sole purpose is to quickly and easily view photos keeps freezing up and won't load photos? Kind of a big deal for the default picture viewer. Never had any problems with the previous pic viewer.

10 out of 12 people found this helpful.

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