Microsoft is revamping the OneDrive app for Windows with a new gallery view, AI-powered slides, and more. The new OneDrive app for Windows is a major redesign from the existing desktop app. Instead of a small pop-up in the taskbar, it’s a full-fledged app that looks a lot like the OneDrive mobile app. It includes a new gallery view of all your photos in the cloud, and a special People view that detects faces in photos and lets you name them.
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OneDrive on Windows will soon work with local photos, allowing users to edit images and keep them locally on a disk or upload them to Microsoft's cloud storage service.
Microsoft is adding more Copilot integration to OneDrive, with a new Photos Agent available to Microsoft 365 Copilot and Microsoft 365 Premium subscribers. This feature acts as a chatbot for your photos, allowing you to request photo collections or recall specific moments in time. Copilot will find the photos and help you create albums.
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OneDrive on iOS and Android will soon gain AI-powered photo editing capabilities, including the ability to convert photos into animated styles. Users will be able to easily clean up blurry or duplicate shots from the mobile app, and a new Moments tab is rolling out to showcase older photos and “on this day” memories.
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Additionally, Microsoft has launched a major update to the way OneDrive users share documents. A new “hero link” feature allows users to simply copy the URL of a OneDrive document instead of sharing special links. This change is similar to how Google Docs has worked for years, making it easier for people to request access to files without encountering access denied messages.
