Microsoft Releases Updated Photos App for Windows 11, Kills Video Editor

Microsoft has redesigned the Photos app in Home windows 11 and begun rolling out the replace to customers.

Microsoft’s Principal Product Supervisor Lead, Dave Grochocki introduced the up to date Pictures app, which has a brand new gallery view and enhancements to the “Recollections” function, in a blog post on Wednesday.

In keeping with Grochoki, the replace affords “a brand new photos-managing expertise” for customers. And the brand new gallery design in Microsoft’s Pictures app is meant to simplify “shopping, discovering, administration and consumption” of the photographs {that a} person has of their assortment.

Grochoki doesn’t go into element in regards to the enhancements to the “Recollections” function on the Pictures app. As an alternative, he says, reasonably vaguely, that the revamped app “means that you can simply backup your photographs with OneDrive, get pleasure from highly effective experiences on Home windows units, and affords a pleasant ‘Recollections’ expertise.”

Nevertheless, the brand new replace to the Pictures app does have one essential downside in that customers will now not have the ability to use the legacy app’s video editor. As an alternative, Grochocki suggests utilizing Clipchamp which Microsoft launched as its new inbox video editor in March after the corporate acquired the app final 12 months.

“Earlier this 12 months, we launched Clipchamp as our new inbox video editor, which is concentrated on making video creation simple, quick, and enjoyable on Home windows,” says Grochocki. “As Clipchamp is provided with all the essential instruments you’d count on, like trimming and splitting, in addition to extra pro-style options like transitions and animated textual content, the brand new Pictures app expertise now not contains the legacy Video Editor.”

But when customers choose to proceed utilizing the legacy Pictures app, it stays accessible within the Microsoft Retailer as “Microsoft Photos Legacy.”

Microsoft started to roll out a preview of the redesigned Pictures app to Home windows Insiders within the Dev Channel yesterday. The corporate plan to extend the rollout over time because it screens suggestions.

In an additional blog post, Microsoft’s Chief Product Officer, Panos Panay, introduced that the up to date Pictures app will roll out to all customers in October.

Picture credit: All photographs by Microsoft.