Organize and notice your photos on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch

The Photos app makes it easy to continue your photos and videos organized and accessible. It can even give you a curated view of your photos, and intelligent Search features can help you chop-chop find exactly what yous're looking for.

Photos is organized into Library, For You, Albums, and Search. When y'all plow on iCloud Photos, your drove is kept up to date across your devices. And using advanced search features, you lot tin can easily find photos of a person, identify, object, or event.

Library

Enjoy a curated view of your moments in the Library tab, then browse past years, months, days, or all photos. You'll also come across Live Photos and videos come up to life as you ringlet and scan.

iPhone showing the Library tab

  • Years: View your entire library of photos and videos that you've taken each year. Then swipe to browse the highlights.
  • Months: See groups of photos and videos taken during each month by memories and locations. Tap the More buttonMore button to share or play a motion-picture show created from your moments.
  • Days: Browse photos of the mean solar day and watch some of your videos automatically play as y'all scroll. Tap a photo and swipe upward to see its location on a map and the people in information technology.
  • All Photos: See your complete photo library including screenshots and indistinguishable photos in the order they were taken.

With iOS xiv and afterwards, you tin can filter what gets displayed, so information technology's easier to browse through your library. For case, you tin can choose to show only photos or only videos. To filter what you see:

  1. Tap the Library tab, then tap the More pushMore button in the upper-correct corner.
  2. Tap Filters, then choose an selection.
  3. Tap Done.

To undo the filter, tap the Filters pushFilters button near the top of your screen, so choose an option, and tap Done.

Live Photos and videos won't autoplay in Photos when Depression Power Mode is enabled.

For You

In the For You tab, Photos searches for your photos and videos to notice moments that stand out, so presents them in collections called Memories. You tin also meet Shared Anthology activity, get ideas for calculation effects to select photos, and find Sharing Suggestions, which are collections of photos that y'all can share.

iPhone showing the For You section

Albums

In the Albums tab, find the albums that you lot've created, shared albums that y'all've created or joined, and collections of different types of photos and videos, like Selfies, Portrait, and Slo-mo. You can likewise look at your photos arranged on a world map in the Places album, or scan your photos based on who's in them in the People album.

The Recents album shows your entire drove in the society that you added them to your library. When you utilize iCloud Photos, the changes that y'all make to your albums on ane device appear on your other devices too.

iPhone showing the albums tab

Create a new album

  1. Open Photos.
  2. Go to Albums and tap the Add buttonAdd button.
  3. Tap New Album. Type an anthology proper noun, tap Save, then cull the photos and videos that yous desire to add.
  4. Tap Done.

Add to an existing album

  1. Open Photos.
  2. Tap Select, and so tap the photos and videos that you desire to add together.
  3. Tap the Share buttonShare button, then tap Add to Anthology and choose an album.

Manage your albums

To alter the name of an album:

  1. Get to the album and tap the More push buttonMore button.
  2. Tap Rename Album.
  3. Change the name, then tap Salve.

To rearrange your albums:

  1. Go to Albums, tap See All, and then tap Edit.
  2. Touch and concord an album and drag it anywhere yous desire.
  3. Tap Done.

With iOS 14 and afterwards, you tin also sort the photos inside your albums. Hither'south how:

  1. Go to an album, and so tap the More button More button.
  2. Tap Sort, then choose a sorting option, like Custom Order, Oldest to Newest, or Newest to Oldest.

Share an album

You can share photos, videos, and albums with select people, then permit them to add their own photos, videos, and comments. In the Albums tab, you can run across the Shared Albums that you've created and joined. Learn more about sharing albums in the Photos app.

Search your photos

Photos makes it easy to find photos of a specific person, place, thing, or consequence. Tap the Search tab, then type what you lot're looking for in the search bar.

iPhone showing the Search section

  • Moments:Search for an event, like a concert you attended or a trip you took. Photos uses the time and location of your photos along with online event listings to discover matching photos.
  • People: Find photos in your library of a specific person or a group of people. Merely keep names and faces organized in your People album.
  • Places: Come across your photos and videos on a map in the Places section. Or type a location proper noun in the Search bar to see photos and videos from that place.
  • Categories: Photos recognizes scenes, objects, and types of locations. Search for a term similar "lake" and select a result to see photos that friction match.

The Search tab besides suggests moments, people, places, categories, and groups for you to search. Tap a suggested search, such equally One Year Ago or Animals, to explore your photos.

When you search your photos, the confront recognition, and scene and object detection are done completely on your device. Learn more about photos and your privacy.

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