Photos (Windows)

Photos
Photos
	Photos in Windows 11 in dark mode
Developer	Microsoft
Initial release	October 26, 2012
Stable release	2026.11020.20001.0 / March 11, 2026
Operating system	Windows 11, Xbox One, Series X/S Discontinued Windows 10 (2025) ; Xbox 360 (2024) ; Windows 8.1 (2023) ; Windows 8 (2016) ;
Predecessor	Windows Photo Viewer, Windows Photo Gallery, Windows Movie Maker
Successor	Clipchamp (for video editing)
Available in	65 languages
	List of languages English (United States); English (United Kingdom); Afrikaans; Albanian; Amharic; Arabic; Azerbaijani; Bangla (Bangladesh); Basque; Belarusian; Bulgarian; Catalan; Chinese (Simplified); Chinese (Traditional); Croatian; Czech; Danish; Dutch; Estonian; Filipino; Finnish; French; French (Canada); Galician; German; Greek; Hausa (Latin); Hebrew; Hindi; Hungarian; Icelandic; Indonesian; Italian; Japanese; Kannada; Kazakh; Khmer; Kiswahili; Korean; Lao; Latvian; Lithuanian; Macedonian; Malay; Malayalam; Norwegian (Bokmål); Persian; Polish; Portuguese (Brazil); Portuguese (Portugal); Romanian; Russian; Serbian (Latin, Serbia); Slovak; Slovenian (Slovenia); Spanish (Mexico); Spanish (Spain); Swedish; Tamil; Telugu; Thai; Turkish; Ukrainian; Uzbek; Vietnamese;
Type	Image viewer, image organizer, video editor, video player, raster graphics editor
License	Freemium – Free base app, with in-app purchases
Website	apps.microsoft.com/detail/9wzdncrfjbh4

Microsoft Photos is an image viewer and image organizer developed by Microsoft. It was first included in Windows 8 in 2012 as a functional replacement for Windows Photo Viewer and Windows Photo Gallery. In 2017, it replaced Windows Movie Maker.

In 2024, Photos transitioned from the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) to the Windows App SDK. The app began running in the background at Windows' startup in order to improve the app startup speed, being also integrated into File Explorer's context menu.