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

Barb Bowman 80,805 Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
2013-06-26T19:27:25+00:00

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:

  1. 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>

  1. 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.

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  1. Anonymous
    2013-06-27T15:47:16+00:00

    Also, what happened to:

    * Viewing by date

    * The panorama view which was default upon opening the old app

    And whats up with:

    * The email app blue theme? Let the pictures define the colors!

    * My 15" inch screen only showing 3 rows, despite the fact that the start screen and the old app can show 4 rows on the same resolution

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  2. Anonymous
    2013-06-27T12:01:21+00:00

    When I open the Photos app; it shows nothing.

    There are photos in my User\Pictures folder. There are plenty of pictures in my SkyDrive folder. There are heaps of pictures in my Facebook account.

    The app doesn't allow me to change the location at the top. it just displays "This PC"

    If I use the "Create Folder" option the folder appears and is visible in the File Explorer on the desktop where I expect the pictures should be.

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  3. Anonymous
    2013-06-27T10:57:36+00:00

    After upgrade to Windows 8.1 RT, Photos App has no connection support for cloud (Facebook, Skydrive, etc)

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  4. Anonymous
    2013-06-27T10:34:56+00:00

    I completely agree. this is madness. how do I use the default application to view my media. I don't want to (or can't when I can TBs of media) store everything in Skydrive.

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  5. Anonymous
    2013-06-27T07:28:56+00:00
    1. No longer includes the ability to show images from Facebook, Flickr, SkyDrive
    2. No longer allows images from other computers or the network -  am guessing that because there is now support for SkyDrive on RT and MS is heavily emphasizing that as the preferred storage location

    If Skydrive as default location is enabled, then the photo app should show the photos on Skydrive... but mine does not (whether on my laptop or on my Surface). And that's VERY annoying. I'll assume this is a bug for now.

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