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

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

Photos is organized into Library, For You lot, Albums, and Search. When you plough on iCloud Photos, your collection is kept upward to engagement beyond your devices. And using advanced search features, you tin hands notice photos of a person, place, object, or event.

Library

Enjoy a curated view of your moments in the Library tab, then browse by years, months, days, or all photos. You lot'll as well meet Alive Photos and videos come to life as you scroll and browse.

iPhone showing the Library tab

  • Years: View your entire library of photos and videos that you've taken each year. Then swipe to scan the highlights.
  • Months: Come across groups of photos and videos taken during each month by memories and locations. Tap the More buttonMore button to share or play a movie created from your moments.
  • Days: Scan photos of the 24-hour interval and watch some of your videos automatically play as you whorl. Tap a photograph and swipe upward to encounter its location on a map and the people in it.
  • All Photos: See your complete photograph library including screenshots and duplicate photos in the order they were taken.

With iOS 14 and afterward, you can filter what gets displayed, and so it's easier to browse through your library. For example, you tin can choose to show only photos or just videos. To filter what you see:

  1. Tap the Library tab, then tap the More than buttonMore button in the upper-right corner.
  2. Tap Filters, then choose an option.
  3. Tap Done.

To undo the filter, tap the Filters pushFilters button nigh the meridian of your screen, then choose an choice, and tap Done.

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

For You

In the For You tab, Photos searches for your photos and videos to notice moments that stand out, then presents them in collections called Memories. You tin can also see Shared Album activity, get ideas for adding effects to select photos, and find Sharing Suggestions, which are collections of photos that you can share.

iPhone showing the For You section

Albums

In the Albums tab, find the albums that y'all've created, shared albums that you've created or joined, and collections of dissimilar types of photos and videos, like Selfies, Portrait, and Slo-mo. Yous can besides look at your photos arranged on a earth map in the Places anthology, or browse your photos based on who's in them in the People album.

The Recents anthology shows your entire drove in the order that you added them to your library. When you use iCloud Photos, the changes that you make to your albums on one 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, and so cull the photos and videos that y'all want to add.
  4. Tap Done.

Add to an existing album

  1. Open Photos.
  2. Tap Select, then tap the photos and videos that yous desire to add.
  3. Tap the Share pushShare button, so tap Add to Album and choose an anthology.

Manage your albums

To change the proper noun of an anthology:

  1. Go to the anthology and tap the More buttonMore button.
  2. Tap Rename Album.
  3. Change the name, then tap Salve.

To rearrange your albums:

  1. Go to Albums, tap Meet All, then tap Edit.
  2. Touch and hold an album and drag information technology anywhere you want.
  3. Tap Washed.

With iOS xiv and later, you can also sort the photos within your albums. Here'south how:

  1. Go to an album, and then tap the More button More button.
  2. Tap Sort, then cull a sorting option, similar Custom Society, Oldest to Newest, or Newest to Oldest.

Share an album

Yous can share photos, videos, and albums with select people, then allow them to add together their own photos, videos, and comments. In the Albums tab, you lot can see the Shared Albums that you lot've created and joined. Larn more than about sharing albums in the Photos app.

Search your photos

Photos makes it like shooting fish in a barrel to find photos of a specific person, place, affair, or result. Tap the Search tab, and then type what yous'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 forth with online event listings to detect matching photos.
  • People: Find photos in your library of a specific person or a group of people. Just keep names and faces organized in your People album.
  • 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 place.
  • Categories: Photos recognizes scenes, objects, and types of locations. Search for a term similar "lake" and select a consequence to meet photos that match.

The Search tab also suggests moments, people, places, categories, and groups for you to search. Tap a suggested search, such every bit I Year Ago or Animals, to explore your photos.

When you search your photos, the face up recognition, and scene and object detection are done completely on your device. Learn more than almost photos and your privacy.

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