Windows 10: Will Microsoft Photos be enabled to view .webp photos

Will Microsoft Photos be enabled to view .webp photos?

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Windows 'Photos' App Support for .webp Files

Agreed.

Photos doesn't have full webp support. For example this webp image is animated, but it's static in Photos. Maybe that's why it doesn't yet recognize the webp extension.

Any browser will display that image with animation, as will some third-party viewers, such as ImageEye.

The issue with Photos is just something to report via Feedback Hub (press ⊞-F in Windows) and hope someday Microsoft adds full webp support.

 

Open WebP images on Photos app

Photos support WebP very well on my other device, but I dont know why I can not choose to open webp format on Photos. and already shows in windows photo viewer..

 

Windows 'Photos' App Support for .webp Files

Hi John D.,

I'm sorry, but this reply doesn't make any sense to me, because as the original poster explained, Photos clearly *does* support the webp file format. This can be demonstrated by renaming the file extension to a supported extension and loading the file in Photos.

It's true that the webp format was developed by Google but it has been released as open source so there shouldn't be any legal restrictions on Microsoft using it. Note that Microsoft does support webp natively in Paint so it makes no sense to me that there would be restrictions that apply to Photos but not to Paint.