Apps Create and Delete Albums in OneDrive Photos app in Windows 11

This tutorial will show you how to create new albums and delete existing albums 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 create new albums in the OneDrive Photos app to organize your images into a custom named album that you can share with friends or family.

When you delete an album, the images added to the album do not get deleted. They will remain in your OneDrive.

The OneDrive Photos (Preview) app is rolling out to Windows Insiders in the Experimental, Experimental (26H1), and Experimental (Future Platforms).

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EXAMPLE: Albums in OneDrive Photos app

This option will create a new empty album.

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

2 Open Albums on the sidebar. (see screenshot below step 3)

3 Click/tap on the New album or Create album button. (see screenshot below)


4 Type a name (ex: "Alien") you want for this album, and click/tap on Next. (see screenshot below)


5 The new album is now ready for you to add images and change cover. (see screenshot below)

This option will create a new album while adding an image to it.

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

2 Open Gallery or This PC on the sidebar where images you want to add to a new album, and perform an available action below you want to use: (see screenshots below)

• Select (check) one or more images, and click/tap on Add to album on the toolbar.
• Right click on a single image, and click/tap on Add to album.

3 Click/tap on Create new album. (see screenshot below)


4 Type a name (ex: "Alien") you want for this album, and click/tap on Create. (see screenshot below)


5 The new album is now ready for you to add more images and change cover. (see screenshot below)

This option will create new album from a folder on your online OneDrive.

1 Go to the OneDrive > My files site at Microsoft, and sign in with your Microsoft account if not already.

2 In My files, open the folder (ex: "Pictures") you want to create an album from. (see screenshot below)


3 Click/tap on Create album from folder on the toolbar. (see screenshot below)


4 After a moment, an album with the same name as the folder (ex: "Pictures") and all images in this folder will be created in the Photos (Preview) app. (see screenshot below)






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

2 Open Albums on the sidebar. (see screenshots below step 3)

3 Perform an available action below you want to use: (see screenshots below)

• Hover on an album you want to delete, and click/tap on the Delete album (trash can) icon.
• Click/tap on an album you want to delete, and click/tap on Delete album on the toolbar.

4 Click/tap on Delete to confirm. (see screenshot below)



That's it,
Shawn Brink