What happened to the old "On This Day" memory display in OneDrive

Mark Reid 0 Reputation points
2025-08-12T23:50:46.2933333+00:00

Up until recently I would get daily notifications for "on this day" photo memories from OneDrive.

Recently this changed. I still get the notifications but when I open them it is now a slideshow.

The slideshow is absolutely useless! I can't proceed through images, I can't go back, I can't download any images that interest me!

Is there a way to restore the old "on this day" notifications response which simply opened a photo album of images from this day, throughout the years?

At least with the old option I could navigate and download at will, this new format cannot do either that I can tell!

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  1. AceRobertT 9,060 Reputation points Independent Advisor
    2025-08-13T00:42:17.6066667+00:00

    Hello Mark. Microsoft has recently updated the way "On this day" photo memories are shown in OneDrive. The new interface is a slideshow instead of showing the photo memories as an album. The new interface has limited functionality in that users are unable to navigate freely between photos, go back one photo or download a photo directly from memory. While there isn't an option to go back to the old way of arranging the photos, users may continue to look back through their historic photos by going to the OneDrive Photos page and filtering by photo date. If the slideshow is more irritating than helpful, you can turn off "On this day" by right-clicking the OneDrive icon in the taskbar, selecting Settings > Notifications and toggling off the memory alerts.

    Best regards,


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