Organize and find photos in OneDrive
Applies ToOneDrive (home or personal) OneDrive for Mac OneDrive for Windows

After you upload photos , OneDrive helps you organize and find them. You can browse your memories fast with our new customizable Gallery, or find a photo based on where it was taken, what is in the photo, and whether it is a video, screenshot, document, and more!

Choose where you are looking at your photos.

To help you find photos, the date appears over the scroll bar as you scroll up and down your photos:

Scroll bar date overlay

Edit or remove a tag

OneDrive automatically creates tags for things it recognizes. Sometimes it makes mistakes, but you can remove or edit the tags for a photo.

  1. Hover your mouse over the photo to show the controls.

  2. Select to open the info pane.

  3. Type a new tag or select the X next to a tag to remove it. (You edit tags by adding or removing them.)

    OneDrive Edit Tags.

See all photos from the same location

If supported by the device taking them, photos have location tags, which you can use to quickly view all photos within the same location.

Caution: Location tags can reveal personal information so be careful when using them!

To find all photos within the same location, type the location in the search bar at the top of the screen. You may need to add the country too.

Tip: If search doesn’t find anything, but you know of at least one photo from that location, open the photo’s detailed information pane  to see how Bing maps has recorded the location, and use that as your search term.

Create your own album

You can organize your photos into an album that you can share with friends or family.

  1. Select the photos you want to add to the album and then click Add to album.

  2. Either select  Circle plus icon New album and give it a name, or choose to add to one of your existing albums.

To help you find photos, once you start scrolling, a month find icon appears on the right, to help you scroll faster. 

Edit or remove a tag

OneDrive automatically creates tags for things it recognizes. Sometimes it makes mistakes, but you can remove or edit the tags for a photo.

  1. Open the photo and tap

  2. Select Edit tags.

  3. Type a new tag or tap the X next to a tag to remove it.Edit tags screenshot

See all photos from the same location

If supported by the device taking them, photos have location tags, which you can use to quickly view all photos within the same location.

Caution: Location tags can reveal personal information so be careful when using them!

To find all photos within the same location, type the location in the search bar at the top of the screen. You may need to add the country too.

Tip: If search doesn’t find anything, but you know of at least one photo from that location, open the photo’s detailed information pane  to see how Bing maps has recorded the location, and use that as your search term.

Create your own album

You can organize your photos into an album that you can share with friends or family.

  1. Select the photos you want to add to the album and then tap

  2. Either tap Circle plus icon to create a new album, or choose to add to one of your existing albums in the list.

Learn more

Change views on the OneDrive website

Sort, rename, or move photos and files in OneDrive

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Create photo albums starting with these templates

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