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How to view your phone photos in the File Explorer gallery

The feature is out now in Build 23471.

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Updated onJuly 14, 2023

updated onJuly 14, 2023

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Microsoft has releasedWindows 11 Insider Preview Build 23471to the Dev Channel and it comes with an important and exciting feature. You can soon view your phone photos in the File Explorer gallery.

The feature adds a new button in the Command Bar titled “Add Phone Photos” to allow you to easily access your phone’s gallery.

There are currently ways to do that. For Iphones, for example,you have several ways to do it, and for Android phones,you can try Google Photos to manage your phone gallery.

However, the newly added feature in the Insider Build 23471 lets you directly access your photos just with a few clicks. Follow along and we’ll show you how to do it.

Here’s how you can view your phone photos in the File Explorer gallery

When the two devices are connected, you should be able to your phone photos in the File Explorer whenever you click on the new feature.

Files Explorer is getting a lot of updates, fixes, and changes on this Insider Preview Build. For example, you now have the ability to tear out and merge tabs in File Explorer. Other fixes focus on issues with accessibility when pressing certain commands wouldn’t work.

Microsoft has made sure File Explorer got everything it needed to function to make it work more seamlessly.Head over to the official release statementof this build to read more about the changes.

Microsoft releasedWindows 11 Insider Preview Build 22621.2048 and Build 22631.2048 (KB5028247)to the Beta Channel, and it’s coming with a brand new File Explorer Gallery, as you can see below.

You’ll be able to access your most recent photos with it, aside from easily accessing your phone photos. If you OneDrive or Camera Roll Backup set on your phone, each photo you take will automatically appear at the top of the view.

Through the Collection dropdown, you can choose which folders are shown in the Gallery. You’ll also be able to easily use Gallery to insert photos into your emails, social media posts or even PowerPoint presentations.

What do you think about this new feature? Will you try it? Let us know in the comments section below.

More about the topics:Windows 11,Windows Update

Flavius Floare

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Flavius is a writer and a media content producer with a particular interest in technology, gaming, media, film and storytelling.

He’s always curious and ready to take on everything new in the tech world, covering Microsoft’s products on a daily basis. The passion for gaming and hardware feeds his journalistic approach, making him a great researcher and news writer that’s always ready to bring you the bleeding edge!

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Flavius is a writer and a media content producer with a particular interest in technology, gaming, media, film and storytelling.