
If your PC is running the new version of Photos and you'd like to revert to the Photos legacy version, open the Photos app, select Settings, and under the About section select Get Photos Legacy. The legacy version includes features like Video Editor, People tab, and Albums. You are running the previous, or legacy version of the Photos app. Photos legacy: does not say Updated in the About section of Settings. This version includes features like iCloud integration in left hand navigation bar. You are running the new version of the Photos app. Photos: says Updated in the About section of Settings.

Select Settings, and under the About section, select About Photos. In the search box on the taskbar, type photos and then select the Photos app from the results. To find out which version of the Photos app you are running: Microsoft released a new version of the Photos app for Windows 11 in October 2022. This article relates to the previous legacy version of the Photos app on Windows 10 and some versions Windows 11, detailing the group photos by faces feature. The People tab and the ability to group photos and videos by similar faces (when turned on by you) is not available in the new Photos app.
