Windows 11s File Explorer offers the ability to view photos
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Windows 11’s File Explorer offers the ability to view photos from your smartphone

This week Microsoft released Windows 11 Preview Build 23471 to Windows Insiders on the Dev Channel. In addition to numerous fixes for known issues, this build includes some interesting new features. Most notable was the ability to view photos from a smartphone in Windows 11 Explorer.

    Image source: Microsoft

Image source: Microsoft

You can access photos from your smartphone in the Gallery section of File Explorer. A new Add Phone Photos button has appeared at the top of the toolbar. After clicking, a QR code will be generated. It must be scanned with a smartphone, after which the photos stored on the mobile device will be available on the user’s computer. When this innovation could be available in stable versions of Windows 11 is still unknown.

In addition, in the new version of Windows 11, the natural language feature in Narrator is now supported in Spanish. The developers have also updated the network popup on the lock screen to match the overall design of the software platform. Also in “Explorer” it became possible to select a tab in a separate window or to move it to another open window. The File Explorer pane called Gallery, introduced in Windows 11 Build 23435, is now available to everyone in the Insider program on the Dev Channel. Added an option to the Settings menu to switch to mobile internet usage in the event of a Wi-Fi connection loss or signal degradation.

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