Search past people, things & places in your photos

Search your photos for anything. For case, you tin can search for:

  • A wedding yous attended last summertime
  • Your best friend
  • A pet
  • Your favorite city

Important: Some features are non bachelor in all countries, all domains, or all account types.

Search your photos

  1. On your Android telephone or tablet, open the Google Photos app Photos.
  2. Sign in to your Google Account.
  3. At the lesser, tap Search.
    • To search past text:
      • Tap on the search box at the top, and enter what you want to find, for example:
      • New York City
      • A name or nickname, if y'all've labeled people or pets
    • To search using suggestions:
      • You can explore categories of:
        • People & Pets: all of the photos and videos of your close ties
        • Places: the map lets you explore your photos in physical space
        • Things: objects and concepts we've detected in your photos
      • You can also scroll to the bottom for more utilitarian searches, like:
        • Screenshots, Selfies, and Videos

Notice photos of a person or pet & add name

To more hands search and manage your photos, you can apply a label to people or pets recognized by Google Photos.

Important: This feature is not available in all countries, all domains, or all account types.

Step 1: Find photos of a person or pet

  1. On your Android phone or tablet, open up the Google Photos app Photos.
  2. Sign in to your Google Business relationship.
  3. At the bottom, tap Search.
  4. You'll encounter a row of faces. To see photos of them, tap a face.
    • To see more faces, tapView all.

If you don't see a row of faces:

  • The characteristic is non bachelor in your country.
  • Yous turned face up groups off in settings. Learn how to turn on face up grouping.
  • No face groups have been recognized.

Step two: Apply a label

  1. At the top of a face grouping, tap Add together a name.
  2. Enter a name or nickname.

You'll exist able to search with that label using the search box. Merely you can see the private face up labels you choose, even if you share those photos.

Plough face grouping off or on

You tin can stop grouping similar faces together in your photos.

If you turn off face up grouping, yous delete:

  • Face groups in your business relationship
  • Face up models used to create those face groups
  • Face labels yous created

To plough it off or on:

  1. On your Android phone or tablet, open the Google Photos app Photos.
  2. Sign in to your Google Business relationship.
  3. At the meridian right, tap your account profile photo or initials.
  4. Tap Photos settingsand then Group similar faces.
  5. Turn Face grouping off or on.
    • To plough off face up grouping only for pets, turn off Show pets with people.

Avant-garde tips

Combine face groups

If the aforementioned person is in more than ane group, you tin can merge the groups.

  1. Label one of the face up groups with a proper name or nickname.
  2. Label the other face group with the same name or nickname, choosing from the suggestions.
  3. When yous ostend the 2nd proper noun or nickname, Google Photos will inquire if yous desire to merge the face groups.

You may also get a suggestion to merge two face groups. If they are the aforementioned person, tap Yes.

Alter or remove a characterization

You can edit or remove your face up grouping labels.

Remove a face grouping from the search page

Remove an item from a group

If you meet a photo that'southward in the wrong group, you lot can take it out.

  1. On your Android telephone or tablet, open the Google Photos app Photos.
  2. Sign in to your Google Account.
  3. At the lesser, tap Search,
  4. Select the face grouping that you want to remove something from.
  5. Tap More and then Remove results.
  6. Select the photos or videos you want to remove from the group.
  7. At the peak right, tap Remove.

Tip: If you lot remove an item from a group, it volition not delete the photo or video from your Google Photos library.

Alter a characteristic photo

Learn about face models

Face grouping occurs in 3 steps:

  • Nosotros detect whether any photo has a confront in it.
  • If the face up grouping feature is turned on, algorithmic models are used to predict the similarity of different images and judge whether 2 images represent the same face.
  • Photos that are probable to represent the same face are grouped together. Y'all can always remove a photograph from a grouping if y'all recall it'due south in the wrong group.

When face grouping is on, Google Photos may also include photos in a particular grouping based on other characteristics. This includes photos being taken close together in time and detecting that a person is wearing the same clothing across photos when a face is not visible.

Confront groups, face up labels & sharing

  • Face labels are private to each account and not shared across accounts.
  • Face groups are non shared when you share photos.
  • Past default, confront groups and labels in your business relationship are just visible to yous.
  • You tin can choose to label a face up group as "Me" and assist your contacts' Google Photos apps to more than easily recognize your face in photos. This helps your contacts go suggestions to share photos of you with yous. Learn how to label your face up group.

When confront grouping is turned on, you allow us know that you want to make a model of your face.

To delete your models, plough off Confront group.

Remove, add, or alter people & pet labels to your photos

If Google Photos misses or incorrectly groups a photograph, you tin can change, remove, or add a photograph to a confront group.

This characteristic isn't bachelor in all countries.

Change which face group a photograph belongs to

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