Apps Change Gallery Layout View in OneDrive Photos app in Windows 11

This tutorial will show you how to change the layout view in Albums, Gallery, Favorites, and This PC folders in the OneDrive Photos app for your account in Windows 11.

OneDrive includes a photos experience included with the OneDrive app on Windows 11. It brings the photo experience you already have on OneDrive web and mobile to the Windows desktop, so your photos feel consistent everywhere you use OneDrive.

In OneDrive Photos you can:

• Browse your OneDrive photos or photos stored on your PC together in the Gallery, a single timeline sorted by the newest photo first.
• Search by what's in your photos, not only by file name. On a Copilot+ PC, search also covers photos stored locally.
• Find photos of specific people in People or filter Gallery by people you've named.
• Revisit highlights from your library in Moments, where OneDrive surfaces collections from your history automatically.
• Create Albums, mark Favorites, and edit photos directly in the photos experience.
• Add local folders and use Windows actions with any photo: set it as your desktop background or lock screen, print it, or open it in File Explorer.

You can change the layout, density, and zoom settings for the Layout view you want in Albums, Gallery, Favorites, and This PC folders in the OneDrive Photos app.

You can select to show All OneDrive folders or Only the Pictures folder in the Gallery in the OneDrive Photos app.

You can also hide or show screenshots and GIFs in the Gallery in the OneDrive Photos app.

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Here's How:

1 Open the OneDrive Photos or Photos (Preview) app.

2 While you have either an Album, Gallery, Favorites, or This PC folders open, click/tap on the Layout button on the toolbar. (see screenshots below)



3 Click/tap on River (default) or Square for the Layout view you want. (see screenshots below)


4 Click/tap on Roomy (default) or Compact for the Density view you want. (see screenshots below)


5 Click/tap on - or + slider to adjust the Zoom level for the view you want. (see screenshots below)


6 Under Photos from OneDrive, select (dot) to show All OneDrive folders (default) or Only the Pictures folder for what you want. (see screenshots below)

This setting is only available in the Gallery.

7 Under Declutter, check (default) or uncheck Hide screenshots and GIFs for what you want. (see screenshot below)

This setting is only available in the Gallery.

That's it,
Shawn Brink