This tutorial will show you how to sign in or sign out of the OneDrive Photos app with your Microsoft 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.
If you sign out of the OneDrive Photos app, you won't see your OneDrive photos, albums, moments, or people in the app. You will only see folders you have added under This PC.
The OneDrive Photos (Preview) app is rolling out to Windows Insiders in the Experimental, Experimental (26H1), and Experimental (Future Platforms).
References:
Browse and manage your photos on Windows | Microsoft Support
The OneDrive photos experience on Windows combines your OneDrive and PC pictures in one timeline. Find out how to search, favorite, and set any photo as your background.
support.microsoft.com
Group photos by people in OneDrive Photos | Microsoft Support
Group photos by people in OneDrive Photos
support.microsoft.com
Here's How:
1 Open the OneDrive Photos or Photos (Preview) app.
2 Do step 3 (sign in) or step 4 (sign out) below for what you want.
3 Sign in to OneDrive Photos app
A) Click/tap on the account icon on the bottom of the sidebar. (see screenshot below 4B)
B) Click/tap on Add an account. (see screenshot below)
C) Enter the email address or phone number sign-in alias for your Microsoft account, and click/tap on Next to sign in. (see screenshot below)
4 Sign out of OneDrive Photos app
A) Click/tap on the account icon on the bottom of the sidebar. (see screenshot below 4B)
B) Click/tap on Sign out. (see screenshot below)
C) Click/tap on Sign out again to confirm. (see screenshot below)
That's it,
Shawn Brink
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