EDIT: October 18 – This has been edited to reflect the Windows 8.1 and Windows RT 8.1 official RTM/GA release. I've just installed the 8.1 Preview on a desktop. EDIT: 10/17/2013-this is also true for RTM . The Photos App has changed: No longer includes the ability to show images from Facebook, Flickr, SkyDrive <10/18/2013deleted missing networked computers issue - for information on how to include content from supported Windows computers on a home network, see http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wiki/windows8_1-pictures/add-network-folders-and-display-pictures-in-the/bf3252f8-9162-4129-8387-5367e24b5609 - note that many older versions of Windows are not supported and that there is no support for Linux based NAS devices> Does have some new editing features 3. Live Tile functionality has disappeared. Edit:6/30 http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows8_1_pr-pictures/possible-fix-for-photos-app-live-time-not-showing/e0eb3bb4-3e9c-4016-aa27-4a011ccc94a3 is what a possible solution is to missing Live Tile issues. Edit: 7/04 Tiles are working, but images change only 1x per day. This needs to be a shorter period. -- Barb Windows Entertainment and Connected Home MVP My Blog - http://digitalmediaphile.com/ Barb's Connected World Blog Reader Windows 8 App - http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-us/app/barbs-connected-world-blog/02f35769-52bf-461c-b1d5-06e54a58d298 Please mark as answered if this answers your question

I agree. I hate that the integration of online services are gone. Now it's just a **** ugly photo viewer, instead of a glorified, central hub, like WP7/8 and Windows 8.0 Add applicable photo apps to the Photo hub too, like WP7/8 The Live Tile is really disappointing, omw. For an OS which prides itself on media and live tiles, the photo app is showing the same photos on the tile for the past 3 weeks. Been trying to make flip through more albums, no luck there. i just published a Wiki article on the Live Tiles issue. See if it helps http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wiki/windows8_1_pr-pictures/change-photo-tile-live-images-in-the-windows-81/c2707fe5-ff63-409a-80f6-e71b3cf30ae7 -- Barb Windows Entertainment and Connected Home MVP My Blog - http://digitalmediaphile.com/ Barb's Connected World Blog Reader Windows 8 App - http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-us/app/barbs-connected-world-blog/02f35769-52bf-461c-b1d5-06e54a58d298 Windows and Surface Community Reader Windows 8 App http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-us/app/windows-and-surface-community/0abb150e-d287-47d4-837e-9fa51f485ad7 Please mark as answered if this answers your question

I agree. I hate that the integration of online services are gone. Now it's just a **** ugly photo viewer, instead of a glorified, central hub, like WP7/8 and Windows 8.0 Add applicable photo apps to the Photo hub too, like WP7/8 The Live Tile is really disappointing, omw. For an OS which prides itself on media and live tiles, the photo app is showing the same photos on the tile for the past 3 weeks. Been trying to make flip through more albums, no luck there.

Seriously.... take a step back and look at where the influence for the app came from. It came from Microsoft's Photo HUB in Windows Phone. The point of this is to be a hub for all of the photos we have, including online services. It is really a step back having to remove these services because Facebook will be having it's own app, and Flickr will have their own app. If that was the case, we could have just pinned the websites respectively to the start screen. Users do not want that, they want one centralized place to see everything happen. If they want to see photos only, minus all the status updates, that's what the Photo hub was suppose to do for us. Please Microsoft, bring this back.

I just upgraded to 8.1 as well and have the same issue as everyone else on here. I had never seen anything like the Photo app in windows 8 and it was often one of the cool features I showed to my friends to try and convince them that Microsoft hadn't completely shot themselves in the foot with this OS. It usually worked pretty well, as most people thought this was a really cool feature. Now I have "upgraded" to Windows 8.1 and find the photo app to be nothing but a redesigned version of file explorer, but with even less features. I'm not really concerned about whether or not there will be a facebook app as I can just open my browser, or whether or not there is a people app because I don't use that for photos. I just want a one-stop app for all the photos I have, regardless of location. Microsoft provided this for me and I was pleased. And now its been taken away and I don't really understand why.

Hi Jordan, The Photo app displays all the pictures that are included in the pictures Library. If you want to add pictures that are saved in other locations, you can just include them in your pictures library and it will automatically added to the Photo app. Just right click on any folder that you would like to add and select “Include in Library” and then select “pictures”. Now, this folder will be automatically displayed in the Photo app. And for some of us even this is broken. I'm not getting anything at all to show up in the app. Have rest library a few times, changed default save folder etc... Like everyone else, hope this is sorted. Photoweaver ok, but not v polished as yet, Edit- sorry,is working. BUT camera doesn't save to default save folder in library... issues, issues....

Photos App in 8.1 loses most of its best features e.g. Facebook/Flickr support...

Barb Bowman 80,805 MVP Volunteer Moderator

EDIT: October 18 – This has been edited to reflect the Windows 8.1 and Windows RT 8.1 official RTM/GA release.

I've just installed the 8.1 Preview on a desktop. EDIT: 10/17/2013-this is also true for RTM. The Photos App has changed:

No longer includes the ability to show images from Facebook, Flickr, SkyDrive

<10/18/2013deleted missing networked computers issue - for information on how to include content from supported Windows computers on a home network, see http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wiki/windows8_1-pictures/add-network-folders-and-display-pictures-in-the/bf3252f8-9162-4129-8387-5367e24b5609 - note that many older versions of Windows are not supported and that there is no support for Linux based NAS devices>

Does have some new editing features

3. Live Tile functionality has disappeared.

Edit:6/30

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows8_1_pr-pictures/possible-fix-for-photos-app-live-time-not-showing/e0eb3bb4-3e9c-4016-aa27-4a011ccc94a3 is what a possible solution is to missing Live Tile issues.

Edit: 7/04

Tiles are working, but images change only 1x per day. This needs to be a shorter period.

Barb

Windows Entertainment and Connected Home MVP

My Blog - http://digitalmediaphile.com/

Barb's Connected World Blog Reader Windows 8 App -

http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-us/app/barbs-connected-world-blog/02f35769-52bf-461c-b1d5-06e54a58d298

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2013-07-21T15:03:22+00:00

I agree. I hate that the integration of online services are gone. Now it's just a **** ugly photo viewer, instead of a glorified, central hub, like WP7/8 and Windows 8.0 Add applicable photo apps to the Photo hub too, like WP7/8 The Live Tile is really disappointing, omw. For an OS which prides itself on media and live tiles, the photo app is showing the same photos on the tile for the past 3 weeks. Been trying to make flip through more albums, no luck there.

i just published a Wiki article on the Live Tiles issue. See if it helps http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wiki/windows8_1_pr-pictures/change-photo-tile-live-images-in-the-windows-81/c2707fe5-ff63-409a-80f6-e71b3cf30ae7

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Windows Entertainment and Connected Home MVP

My Blog - http://digitalmediaphile.com/

Barb's Connected World Blog Reader Windows 8 App -

http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-us/app/barbs-connected-world-blog/02f35769-52bf-461c-b1d5-06e54a58d298

Windows and Surface Community Reader Windows 8 App

http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-us/app/windows-and-surface-community/0abb150e-d287-47d4-837e-9fa51f485ad7

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2013-07-21T14:54:06+00:00

I agree. I hate that the integration of online services are gone. Now it's just a **** ugly photo viewer, instead of a glorified, central hub, like WP7/8 and Windows 8.0

Add applicable photo apps to the Photo hub too, like WP7/8

The Live Tile is really disappointing, omw. For an OS which prides itself on media and live tiles, the photo app is showing the same photos on the tile for the past 3 weeks. Been trying to make flip through more albums, no luck there.
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2013-07-21T03:21:48+00:00

Seriously.... take a step back and look at where the influence for the app came from. It came from Microsoft's Photo HUB in Windows Phone. The point of this is to be a hub for all of the photos we have, including online services. It is really a step back having to remove these services because Facebook will be having it's own app, and Flickr will have their own app. If that was the case, we could have just pinned the websites respectively to the start screen. Users do not want that, they want one centralized place to see everything happen. If they want to see photos only, minus all the status updates, that's what the Photo hub was suppose to do for us. Please Microsoft, bring this back.
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2013-07-21T01:43:56+00:00

I just upgraded to 8.1 as well and have the same issue as everyone else on here. I had never seen anything like the Photo app in windows 8 and it was often one of the cool features I showed to my friends to try and convince them that Microsoft hadn't completely shot themselves in the foot with this OS. It usually worked pretty well, as most people thought this was a really cool feature.

Now I have "upgraded" to Windows 8.1 and find the photo app to be nothing but a redesigned version of file explorer, but with even less features. I'm not really concerned about whether or not there will be a facebook app as I can just open my browser, or whether or not there is a people app because I don't use that for photos. I just want a one-stop app for all the photos I have, regardless of location. Microsoft provided this for me and I was pleased. And now its been taken away and I don't really understand why.
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2013-07-20T20:49:12+00:00

Hi Jordan,

The Photo app displays all the pictures that are included in the pictures Library. If you want to add pictures that are saved in other locations, you can just include them in your pictures library and it will automatically added to the Photo app. Just right click on any folder that you would like to add and select “Include in Library” and then select “pictures”. Now, this folder will be automatically displayed in the Photo app.

And for some of us even this is broken. I'm not getting anything at all to show up in the app. Have rest library a few times, changed default save folder etc...

Like everyone else, hope this is sorted.

Photoweaver ok, but not v polished as yet,

Edit- sorry,is working. BUT camera doesn't save to default save folder in library... issues, issues....
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