Apps Filter Gallery in OneDrive Photos app in Windows 11

This tutorial will show you how to filter which images will show in the Gallery 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.

Gallery shows all your photos in one timeline, newest first, whether they're saved in your OneDrive or stored on your PC.

To narrow the photos currently shown in the Gallery, you can filter by media type, favorites, people, source, orientation, and resolution.

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

2 Open Gallery from the left pane, and click/tap on the Filter button on the toolbar. (see screenshot below)


3 Under Media type, click/tap on Photos or Videos for which you only want to show. (see screenshot below)

You can click/tap on the selected Photos or Videos again to clear this filter.

4 Under Media type, check or uncheck Only favorites to show for what you want. (see screenshot below)


5 Under People, click/tap on any found people to only show images of those people. (see screenshot below)

You can click/tap on any selected people again to clear this filter.

6 Under Source, click/tap on OneDrive or This PC for where you only want images to show from. (see screenshot below)

You can click/tap on the selected OneDrive or This PC again to clear this filter.

7 Under Orientation, click/tap on Portrait, Landscape, or Square to only show images with the selected orientation. (see screenshots below)

You can click/tap on the selected Portrait, Landscape, or Square again to clear this filter.

8 Under Resolution, click/tap on HD+, FHD+, 4K+, or Custom resolution you enter to only show images with the selected resolution. (see screenshots below)

You can click/tap on the selected HD+, FHD+, 4K+, or Custom again to clear this filter.

9 When finished, you can close the Filters menu. (see screenshot below)






1 Perform an action below you want to use to clear all filters at once: (see screenshots below)

• Close the OneDrive Photos or Photos (Preview) app.
• Click/tap on X on the Filter button on the toolbar.
• Click/tap on the Clear all button in the Filters menu.

That's it,
Shawn Brink