Organise and find your photos on your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch

The Photos app makes information technology easy to proceed your photos and videos organised and accessible. It can even give you a curated view of your photos, and intelligent Search features can help you notice exactly what you're looking for quickly.

Photos is organised into Library, For You, Albums and Search. When you turn on iCloud Photos, your collection is kept up to appointment across your devices. And by using advanced Search features, you can discover photos of a person, place, object or event easily.

Library

Enjoy a curated view of your moments in the Library tab, and then browse by years, months, days or all photos. You'll also see Live Photos and videos come to life equally you curl and scan.

iPhone showing the Library tab

  • Years: View your entire library of photos and videos that you've taken each twelvemonth. Then swipe to scan the highlights.
  • Months: Run across groups of photos and videos taken each calendar month grouped by retentivity and location. Tap the More buttonMore button to share or play a movie created from your moments.
  • Days: Browse photos of the 24-hour interval and sentinel some of your videos play automatically every bit you scroll. Tap a photo and swipe upwards to run into its location on a map and the people in information technology.
  • All Photos: See your complete photo library including screenshots and duplicate photos in the order they were taken.

With iOS xiv and afterward, you lot can filter what volition be displayed, so it's easier to browse through your library. For case, you can choose to bear witness only photos or but videos. To filter what y'all see:

  1. Tap the Library tab, then tap the More buttonMore button in the top right-manus corner.
  2. Tap Filters, and so choose an option.
  3. Tap Done.

To undo the filter, tap the Filters buttonFilters button near the top of your screen, then cull an option and tap Done.

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

For Y'all

In the For You tab, Photos searches for your photos and videos to find moments that stand up out, then presents them in collections called Memories. You can also run across Shared Anthology activity, go ideas for adding effects to selected photos and find Sharing Suggestions, which are collections of photos you lot can share.

iPhone showing the For You section

Albums

In the Albums tab, y'all can detect the albums you've created and the shared albums you lot've created or joined, too equally collections of unlike types of photo and video, such every bit Selfies, Portrait and Slo-mo. You tin as well expect at your photos bundled on a world map in the Places album, or browse your photos based on who'due south in them in the People album.

The Recents album will display your entire collection in the order yous've added them to your library. When you're using iCloud Photos, the changes you're making to your albums on 1 device will appear on your other devices too.

iPhone showing the albums tab

Create a new anthology

  1. Open Photos.
  2. Get to Albums and tap the Add buttonAdd button.
  3. Tap New Album. Blazon an album name, tap Save, then choose the photos and videos y'all want to add.
  4. Tap Washed.

Add together to an existing album

  1. Open up Photos.
  2. Tap Select, then tap the photos and videos you want to add.
  3. Tap the Share push buttonShare button, then tap Add to Anthology and choose an anthology.

Manage your albums

To modify the name of an anthology:

  1. Go to the album and tap the More buttonMore button.
  2. Tap Rename Anthology.
  3. Modify the proper name, and so tap Relieve.

To rearrange your albums:

  1. Go to Albums, tap Run across All, then tap Edit.
  2. Touch and hold an album and elevate it anywhere you want.
  3. Tap Done.

With iOS 14 and later, y'all can also sort the photos within your albums. Here'southward how:

  1. Go to an album, so tap the More push button More button.
  2. Tap Sort, so cull a sorting option, such as Custom Order, Oldest to Newest or Newest to Oldest.

Share an anthology

You tin share photos, videos and albums with selected people, and so allow them to add their own photos, videos and comments. In the Albums tab, you can come across the Shared Albums you've created and joined. Find out more about sharing albums in the Photos app.

Search your photos

Photos makes information technology easy to find photos of a specific person, place, affair or event. 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 outcome, such as a concert you attended or a trip you took. Photos uses the time and location of your photos forth with online event listings to find matching photos.
  • People: Detect photos in your library of a specific person or grouping of people. Just go along names and faces organised in your People anthology.
  • Places: See your photos and videos on a map in the Places section. Or type a location name in the Search bar to encounter photos and videos from that identify.
  • Categories: Photos recognises scenes, objects and types of location. Search for a term such as "lake" and select a result to see photos that match.

The Search tab also 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 lot search your photos, the face recognition and the scene and object detection are done completely on your device. Detect out more than virtually photos and your privacy.

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