Photos 🟡 PREVIEW
Preview application. Usable today, not yet part of the supported surface.
Photos is a gallery over the images already in your Drive, with a lightbox for viewing and a simple editor for small corrections.
What it does
| Capability | Detail |
|---|---|
| Gallery | Thumbnails of the images in your Drive, with a lightbox for full-size viewing |
| Open from Drive | Works on images that live in Drive paths you already have |
| Edit | A lightweight editor for crops and adjustments |
| Save | Save changes in place, or save a copy to a Drive path you choose |
| Revert | Discard edits and return to the stored image |
Photos is deliberately not a file manager — it reads the Drive rather than replacing it. Anything structural (moving, sharing, deleting files) belongs in Explorer.
Opening it
Photos is a preview application. Turn on the Preview switch in the left sidebar, then open Photos from the app menu.
Limits
- Formats are limited to what the browser can decode; unsupported images report a decode error rather than being converted.
- The editor is for quick corrections, not composite work. For layered editing, use Canvas.
See Also
- Explorer - Where the files live
- Canvas - Creative surface
- Apps overview - Stability classification for the whole suite