At Microsoft’s Floor occasion, it was introduced that you can entry your iCloud Photographs from throughout the up to date Home windows 11 Photographs app, coming quickly to Home windows 11 as an replace in November.

Along with this, devoted Apple TV and Apple Music apps (opens in new tab) can be out there in 2023, which suggests iTunes for Home windows is lastly being changed.

Whilst you’ve been capable of view your photographs via the iCloud for Home windows app for quite a lot of years, there was no approach to view them via Home windows 11’s Photographs app. This replace solves that problem, whereas reflecting how one can view your synced media on macOS via Apple’s Photographs app.

Whereas Apple TV and Apple Music are coming to Home windows 11 in 2023, Insider customers are capable of check Photographs now (opens in new tab), lengthy with different options that will or might not be coming to Home windows sooner or later.

Evaluation: iTunes on Home windows is gone its prime

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Having the ability to view content material that is in your iOS gadget in Home windows has been troublesome at finest, with the iCloud for Home windows (opens in new tab) app having barely been up to date lately, and failing to match what Apple customers have been given in current software program updates to iOS and macOS, equivalent to Reminiscences and the flexibility to seek out individuals via Faces.

It was additionally turning into awkward to make use of iTunes in Home windows 11 after it had been discarded by Apple with macOS Catalina and changed with Apple Music, so that is one other lastly.

Seeing a devoted app for Apple TV additionally is smart, as you’ll be able to presently solely view content material via an internet browser (opens in new tab), which is not the finest expertise for watching Ted Lasso.

Total, these are welcome updates which are all lengthy overdue. Customers will quickly be capable to entry their photographs and movies rather more simply – and everybody advantages, together with Microsoft and Apple.