OneDrive as an alternative to Google Photos: photo editing functions are coming to the web and Android version

Google Photos has stopped offering free storage as of June 1st. From that date, all the photos we upload will count as space occupied in the Google cloud, something that has caused many users to look for alternatives to the popular tool. And one of those options can be OneDrive, or that's what Microsoft looks for with the changes it's adding.

Google Photos was not only storage in the cloud, but was also an application that offered access to a series of tools for digital processingof the photos and thus be able to edit them.And something similar is what Microsoft is starting to do in OneDrive.

Future alternative to Google Photos

With the aim of establishing itself as an alternative to Google Photos, Microsoft is implementing a set of editing tools in OneDrive. These tools are being rolled out for the web version and in the latest Android app that can be downloaded from the Google Play Store.

The truth is that it is only the beginning, and The options that OneDrive offers right now to edit photos are very fair Users They have the ability to rotate photos, flip them, or modify aspects such as brightness, saturation, shadows... In addition, photo editing is only available for JPEG and PNG files. It still doesn't appear in the Android app, but it is available in the web version.

Along with this basic editing capabilities, Microsoft prepares the arrival of more features such as the ability to organize uploaded photos that the photos will be classified according to the application or source that generated them, thus separating the photos that, for example, we take with the camera from those that come to us by Telegram or WhatsApp. In addition, you'll also have the ability to group images by months or years and filter your search to include specific folders.

New features are starting to arrive on OneDrive via the web version and the Android app, coming to iOS later this year year. For now the deployment is slow and progressive, which means that very few users already have them active.