Windows 11 is quietly installing OneDrive Photos on your machine

It's that time of the week again, I guess.

The year is 2026, and I'm still amazed when I find a new entry in my Start menu's All apps list for an app I don't remember installing. This time, it's Microsoft again, and the product is OneDrive Photos, which appears to be yet another photo viewer and editor for Windows 11 that nobody asked to have installed automatically.

While searching for Microsoft Photos, a new app called OneDrive Photos" showed up in my results out of nowhere. It appears to have arrived either via Windows Update or an update for the OneDrive sync client on Windows.

Mayank Parmar at Windows Latest

Just don't use Windows. You people paid me to use it and it was not a fun experience.