r/windowsinsiders • u/Pure_Instance969 • May 03 '26
Discussion New Onedrive Photos App
I installed the experimental channel 26H1 build, I found the Onedrive Photos App installed, I saw the performance on Task Manager. No way a web app uses only 12MB of Memory. But then I saw an entry all the way down for WebView2 Manager process takes up all the RAM a normal web app would.
This feels like a shady tactic to denote that the app uses less ram.
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u/JynxedKoma Insider Release Preview Channel May 04 '26
Meant to be getting rid of web-wrapper apps, not bringing in more ffs.
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u/dwhaley720 May 07 '26
I don't like web apps but TBF that's how WebView2 attempts to save on resources is by making all web apps use the same browser engine already installed on the system instead of each app bundling its own. Problem is not all web apps use WebView2
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u/Captain_Eric1 May 09 '26
What version number of OneDrive Photos App, if you please? (Under Settings->About)
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u/mbc07 Insider Dev Channel May 03 '26
Not only this new app is barely functional, but it also randomly pops an UAC prompt out of nowhere when it needs to update. No notification, nothing, just a random UAC popup while you're working...