How to add Favorites to Photos app in Windows 11/10

This post will show you how to add Favorites in the Photos app in Windows 11/10. Microsoft has added a new option to mark any image or video as Favorite in the Photos app. Let’s check out the process here.

The Photos app is quite helpful in editing images, and you can open any image with the Photos app without restoring the old Windows Photo Viewer. Let’s assume that you have lots of pictures in the selected folder, and the Photos app shows all of them all the time. You might need to open some images frequently. Instead of navigating the paths, you can mark those images as Favorites so that you can open them quickly and in a much better way.

When you mark an image as Favorite, a new album gets created automatically in the Photos app. Also, only images from an added folder can be marked as Favorite in the Photos app. If you open an image from any other source, the button will be grayed out. You can move your image to the existing folder, or you can add a new folder location in the Photos app.

How to add Favorites in the Photos app

To add or remove Favorites from Photos app in Windows 11/10, follow these steps-

Open the Photos app on Windows.
Select an image that you want to mark as Favorite.
Click on it.
Click on the Add to favorites button in the top menu bar.
Go to the Albums tab.
Click on Favorites album to find all the marked image.

Open the Photos app on your Windows PC and select an image that you want to mark as a favorite. After that, click on the Add to favorites button that is visible on the top menu bar.

Windows 10 screenshot

Windows 11 screenshot

Once you do that, it gets added to the Favorites album. As I mentioned earlier, a new album, named Favorites, gets created when you mark an image as Favorite.

To view all the marked photos, you need to visit the home screen of the Photos app and switch to the Albums tab. Here you can find a new album called Favorites.

Windows 10 screenshot

Read: How to use Choose a Star feature in Windows Photos app

Windows 11 screenshot

Click on it to view all the images. In case you want to remove an image from the Favorites album, you need to open it and click on the Remove from Favorites button.