Apps Create and Delete Albums in 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.

The updated Photos app on Windows 11 helps you browse, organize, and edit photos and videos from your PC, OneDrive, and iCloud. You can use Photos with pictures stored on your PC without signing in to OneDrive.

In Photos you can:

• Browse photos and videos from your PC, OneDrive, and iCloud in Gallery.
• Search by what's in your personal OneDrive photos, not only by file name. On a Copilot+ PC, search also covers indexed photos stored locally.
• With a personal Microsoft account, find photos of friends or family in People, filter Gallery by people you name, revisit highlights in Moments, and create Albums.
• Mark Favorites.
• Crop and adjust photos with the updated editor.
• Browse photos available on your device when you're not connected to the internet.
• Add local folders and use Windows actions with a 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 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.

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EXAMPLE: Albums in Photos app

This option will create a new empty album.

1 Open the Photos 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 Photos 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 Photos 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