How to exclude folders with pics appearing in the photo gallery

Yeah, you are right, I didn't notice that part in the question.

In any case I totally agree with you.

Current behaviour is borderline unusable even with this filter.

I would say MS should create an option to select a set of folders to be shown is 'Photos' tab, and exclude all others.

At least that's what I would consider an acceptable solution.

Unfortunately, I don't think this post will ever be recognized by MS dev team.

Just as you mentioned MS never gives a **** about the desires of their customers. They live in their own universe.

The only advice I can give as of now is to purchase a yearly subscription to google cloud services. It is a bit more expensive but the UX is what you're paying for I suppose.

This is exactly what I was asking. Thank you!

This work around is not part of the discussion as I some have "SUBSCRIBED" or better yet, "PAY FOR" the Microsoft service... So, back to the question: Why can't we toggle the access on and off to a folder for privacy? The photo engine literally gives ZERO privacy, and subsequently is INVADING PRIVACY! THIS NEEDS TO BE ADDRESSED NOW!

I wonder, could this lack of feature be considered a breach of privacy in a legal battle? Or do we just have to cancel the subscription to show the level of concern?

This is symptomatic with so many Microsoft products over the past three or four years. They release products that on the surface look feature rich but once you start using them you realise they are missing fundamental and basic functionality. Whats worse is they often force you to "update" to their new versions which are stripped down versions of the originals but with a new lick of paint. Look at the office products, the decimation of OneNote, the new Outlook app completely removing client side rules, the new Teams app that keeps losing messages. Lets not even get started with their licence changes for things like PowerBI. They wont listen; they appear to have grown extra mouths and lost their ears.

Even these forums are a complete joke nowadays. You are better searching Reddit than the official copy and paste responses from the admins on here. More often than not the "solution" provided has no relevance to the issue. This thread is a prime example of that. Do the mods get karma per response or something? Anyway rant over... Have subscribed to this thread but wont be holding my breath for an actual solution.

Olivia and all the Microsoft team,

do you realize, that not allowing users to choose folders - sources of the photos - which should be displayed in the OneDrive Photo Gallery, makes OneDrive completely unusable (dysfunctional) for Photo purposes?

It is not a question of voting, if this is a priority! It is so obvious bug and such a huge OneDrive Microsoft team failure, that you should fix it immediately.

Because of this failure, right know, OneDrive users have only these options:
1/ Not to use OneDrive for Photos, but just as a data storage (so, you need to store Photos on other cloud solutions, e.g. on Google Cloud).

2/ Use OneDrive just for Photos, but other data you need to store on other cloud solutions, because you don't want to mix your data with photos (so, Microsoft is losing part of business and makes users angry = loss-loss, not win-win).

3/ Not to use OneDrive at all, because is much more simple to use other cloud solution, which allows you to store all the data and in your Photo Gallery display only photos, you want to be seen.

Olivia, please, escalate it and fix it asap! Thanks.