How to exclude folders with pics appearing in the photo gallery

Hello there.

I have been looking for a way to segregate my pictures in the "Pictures" folder from other image files spread everywhere in my One Drive archive... However, as mentioned by many users here, they all get mixed up in the gallery.

When is Microsoft going to add a functionality (a checkbox) to display in the gallery only the pictures from the "Pictures" folder?

The existing filter works, but this is not a solution, since I have to apply this filter everytime I open the application. Also, the main point is that I do not want to mix personal photos with all my other computer images.

Please Microsoft. this will help us have a much better user experience.

Best regards

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.

Totally agree. I honestly don't understand their product strategy. How can anyone think that releasing "new" products with less than 50% of the features of "old" products is a good idea?

They are all the same, Photos, Outlook being 2 examples. There are basic features missing in the new versions, are they just waiting for customers to complain before adding them back in? Madness.

And support forums are just full of unqualified bots from Asia posting copy and paste stock responses that never actually address the issue. Terrible customer experience.

Now i even get private pictures in my windows 11 start menu !! (Your memories)

This in unnaceptable, i don't want to see my pictures everywhere.

I totally agree. This is such a betrayal of trust. The fact that they won't fix it is astounding.