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Microsoft’s Photos app on Windows 11 has shipped a sharply focused—but hardware‑gated—AI upgrade that automatically sorts receipts, screenshots, handwritten notes and identity documents and brings on‑device “super resolution” upscaling to Copilot+ PCs, but the most useful parts of the update are...

Microsoft’s 2025 Windows 11 feature update — version 25H2 — arrives as a careful, operationally minded release rather than a headline-grabbing rework: it’s an enablement package that flips on features already staged in the 24H2 servicing stream, removes a few long‑deprecated tools, and resets...

Microsoft’s Photos app for Windows 11 has quietly graduated from a capable image viewer to a genuinely helpful AI-driven photo manager, and the September Insider release introduces two practical advances that matter to anyone juggling receipts, IDs, screenshots, and decades of low-resolution...

Microsoft’s Photos app on Windows 11 just learned a tidy new habit: it will now automatically sort certain types of images into focused collections so you can find receipts, screenshots, IDs, and notes without digging through months of camera-roll clutter. This change — shipped as an Insider...

Windows 11’s Photos app will now quietly tidy up your digital shoebox — but only for a handful of document-like image types and only on Copilot+ PCs for the moment. Background Microsoft has steadily rebuilt the Photos app from a basic image viewer into an AI-aware productivity surface over the...

Microsoft’s Photos app for Windows 11 can now do more than display and edit images — it will proactively tidy your camera roll by automatically grouping receipts, screenshots, identity documents, and notes into dedicated categories, and the preview is rolling out to Windows Insiders on Copilot+...

Microsoft’s Photos app will now sort your messy camera roll for you — but only on select Windows machines and with a handful of important caveats. Background Microsoft announced an AI-powered Auto‑Categorization feature for the Windows 11 Microsoft Photos app in a Windows Insider post by senior...

Microsoft’s Photos app for Windows 11 is getting an AI-powered tidy-up: a preview of Auto‑Categorization that automatically sorts images — screenshots, receipts, identity documents, and handwritten notes — into dedicated folders on supported machines, and Microsoft is currently testing the...

Microsoft’s new Auto‑Categorization for the Windows 11 Photos app begins a modest but practical assault on one of the most persistent annoyances of modern digital life: a chaotic photo library full of receipts, screenshots, IDs and scrawled notes. The feature—rolling out to Windows Insiders on...

Microsoft’s Photos app on Windows 11 is getting a focused AI-driven cleanup: an Auto‑Categorization preview that scans your image library and automatically groups common paperwork and clutter — Screenshots, Receipts, Identity documents, and Handwritten notes — into their own folders, and the...

Microsoft has begun testing an AI-powered Auto‑Categorization feature in the Windows 11 Microsoft Photos app that automatically sorts images into four practical buckets — Screenshots, Receipts, Identity documents, and Notes — for Windows Insiders running the app on Copilot+ PCs, with the update...

Microsoft has quietly begun previewing an AI-driven tidy-up for Windows 11 photo libraries: the Microsoft Photos app will now automatically scan and group images into four focused, document‑like categories — Screenshots, Receipts, Identity documents, and Notes — and the capability is rolling out...

Microsoft has quietly started rolling an AI-powered tidy-up for overflowing photo libraries: the Microsoft Photos app on Windows 11 now includes an Auto‑Categorization feature that automatically groups images into dedicated folders for Screenshots, Receipts, Identity documents, and Notes, and...

Microsoft is quietly rolling an AI-powered tidy-up inside the Windows 11 Photos app: a new Auto‑Categorization feature will scan your library and group images into four practical buckets — Screenshots, Receipts, Identity documents, and Notes — but it’s being tested only on Copilot+ PCs for now...

Microsoft is rolling out a targeted, AI-driven organizational upgrade to the Windows 11 Photos app that automatically sorts images into four practical categories — Screenshots, Receipts, Identity documents, and Notes — and the capability is being previewed for Windows Insiders on Copilot+ PCs as...

Microsoft has begun previewing an AI-powered organizational upgrade to the Photos app on Windows 11 that automatically sorts images into four focused categories—Screenshots, Receipts, Identity documents, and Notes—and is currently available for testing on Copilot+ PCs enrolled in the Windows...

Windows has always been a moving target: features appear, gain fans, stagnate, and sometimes quietly disappear — often replaced by something that reflects Microsoft’s current priorities around security, cloud services, and AI. The past decade alone shows a clear pattern: legacy, underused, or...

Microsoft is quietly moving generative AI from apps into the very heart of Windows by adding an AI Actions submenu to File Explorer — a right‑click surface that lets you run visual search or apply quick, model‑driven image edits without opening a separate editor. The capability, visible in the...

Microsoft’s latest Canary‑channel experiment pushes intelligence deeper into the Windows shell: a new AI actions submenu in File Explorer lets you right‑click images to run Bing Visual Search, blur or remove backgrounds, and erase objects — all without opening a full editor. This context‑aware...

Microsoft is quietly folding AI-powered image editing and Bing visual search directly into the File Explorer right‑click menu as part of Insider testing, a move that turns the once‑simple file manager into a micro‑workflow gateway for quick edits and visual lookups. Background Microsoft’s...