We kicked off 2026 with two releases that moved Ente Photos significantly forward across sharing, organization, and everyday usability. Across mobile, desktop, and web, we shipped new features and improvements that make sharing more social, photo management easier, and the overall experience more joyful.
More reasons to share
Likes and comments
Your photos are phenomenal conversation starters. While sharing has always been core to Ente Photos, conversations around shared photos often happened outside that private space. Not anymore.
You and your loved ones can now like and comment on shared photos across all platforms. Even friends who are not on Ente can react and comment on photos and albums shared via a link.
Incoming likes and comments now appear in the Shared tab and via push notifications in the mobile app, so keeping up with activity is simple and immediate.
Admin role for albums
Party and event albums often involve friends and family uploading large numbers of photos. Managing those albums can quickly become cumbersome, especially when someone needs to review and moderate content.
The new admin role makes that easier. Album owners can assign another Ente user as an admin to help remove photos, add viewers and collaborators, moderate comments, and suggest permanent deletion to photo owners for controversial shots.
This role is also useful for everyday family sharing. For example, partners can co-manage a family album more conveniently. The goal is to give album owners and trusted collaborators better tools to keep shared spaces clean and relevant. The admin role is available across platforms, so everyone can use the device they’re most comfortable with.
Download albums as ZIPs
Based directly on user feedback, you can now download an entire album as multipart ZIP files on web and desktop.
This is especially useful for link-shared albums, where friends may want a local copy. In the past, that often meant downloading photos one by one, triggering many separate downloads. Now they can download the full album in a few ZIP files.
Quality-of-life improvements
Settings redesign
The Settings experience on mobile has been completely redesigned. Settings are where people go for control, clarity, and confidence, so this update focuses on making everything cleaner and easier to navigate.
The new layout is easier to scan, and built-in search helps you jump straight to the toggle you need instead of scrolling through sections.
This is part of a broader design-language refresh across Ente, with more updates coming in upcoming releases.
Mobile search experience
Search on mobile is now faster and easier to use, with quicker tab loading, a redesigned results screen, and the search bar moved to the top.
Search is also now available directly within Discover, Location, and File Type pages in the Search tab.
Person management on mobile
Managing faces across years of photos can be tedious. Several updates now make that workflow smoother: sorting and search in the faces list, a dedicated page for ignored faces, and easier face merging.
Organization experience on desktop
Many desktop workflows in Ente Photos are centered around organization, and several improvements now make that process faster.
You can now hide shared albums and upload directly to hidden albums. A Select all action is available in both album and gallery views.
Album lists can also be sorted while uploading, adding, or moving photos, making it easier to find the right destination quickly. The main album list now supports more sorting options as well: name, creation time, and modified time, each in ascending or descending order.
And so much more
On mobile, you can finally pinch to zoom in videos. Unsupported image formats now show preview images instead of a blank screen. The collage creation flow is also improved, with easier photo swapping and replacement.
On web and desktop, there’s a new context menu for photos, so common actions are just a right-click away. You can also clean up uncategorized photos by removing items that already exist in other albums. Editing GPS location is now possible directly on web and desktop too—an often-requested feature that was previously available only on mobile.
There are many more small improvements and bug fixes beyond what’s listed here. See the full list.
January set the tone for how we want to build in 2026: ship faster, listen closely, and improve the parts of Ente Photos you use most.
Many of these updates came directly from user requests, and we’re continuing in that direction.
