Microsoft Photos will soon auto-categorize your pictures

Microsoft is testing a way that will facilitate sift through the size of your photo library. An update that arrives at all Windows 11 initiates on PCS Copilot presents a new feature fueled by AI on the Photos Application which will place images of receipts, screenshots, identity documents and handwritten notes in their own files.

Microsoft says that the photos application will automatically classify these images according to their visual content, even if the text of the image is in a language other than English. This means that a photo of a Hungarian passport, for example, will always be sorted in the file with your other identity documents.

Once the photos are sorting your images, you will find the folders it creates under the Categories section of the left navigation bar. For the moment, photos can only identify and categorize screenshots, receipts, identity documents and notes, but it would probably be even more useful if you could specify the categories you want to create, like photos of your dog or the beach.