Search by people, things and places in your photos

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

  • A wedding that yous attended last summer
  • Your best friend
  • A pet
  • Your favourite urban center

Important: Some features are not available in all countries, all domains or all business relationship 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 bottom, tap Search.
    • To search by text:
      • Tap on the search box at the pinnacle, and enter what you want to find, for example:
      • London
      • A proper name or nickname, if y'all've labelled people or pets
    • To search using suggestions:
      • You lot tin can explore categories of:
        • People and pets: All of the photos and videos of your close ties
        • Places: The map lets you explore your photos in concrete space
        • Things: Objects and concepts that we've detected in your photos
      • You lot can also scroll to the lesser for more utilitarian searches, such as:
        • Screenshots, selfies and videos

Discover photos of a person or pet and add name

To search and manage your photos more than easily, you lot tin can apply a label to people or pets recognised by Google Photos.

Of import: 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 telephone 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 lot'll see a row of faces. To see photos of them, tap a face.
    • To see more faces, tapView all.

If you don't come across a row of faces:

  • The characteristic is not available in your country.
  • You've turned off confront groups in settings. Learn how to turn on face up grouping.
  • No confront groups have been recognised.

Step 2: Employ a characterization

  1. At the superlative of a face up grouping, tap Add a name.
  2. Enter a proper noun or nickname.

You'll be able to search with that label using the search box. Just you can see the individual face labels that you cull, even if you lot share those photos.

Plow face grouping off or on

You can stop group like faces together in your photos.

If you turn off confront group, you delete:

  • Confront groups in your account
  • Face up models that were used to create those confront groups
  • Face labels that y'all created.

To plough it off or on:

  1. On your Android phone or tablet, open up the Google Photos app Photos.
  2. Sign in to your Google Account.
  3. At the top right, tap your account contour photo or initials.
  4. Tap Photos settingsand then Group similar faces.
  5. Turn Confront group off or on.
    • To turn off face group simply for pets, turn off Show pets with people.

Advanced tips

Combine face groups

If the same person is in more than one group, you can merge the groups.

  1. Label ane of the confront groups with a name or nickname.
  2. Characterization the other face group with the same proper name or nickname, choosing from the suggestions.
  3. When y'all confirm the second name or nickname, Google Photos will ask if you want to merge the face groups.

You may besides receive a suggestion to merge 2 confront groups. If they are the same person, tap Yes.

Modify or remove a label

You tin can edit or remove your confront group labels.

Remove a face up group from the search page

Remove an item from a group

If you see a photo that'south in the wrong group, yous tin accept 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 bottom, tap Search,
  4. Select the face group that you want to remove something from.
  5. Tap More than and then Remove results.
  6. Select the photos or videos that you desire to remove from the group.
  7. At the top right, tap Remove.

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

Alter a characteristic photo

Learn about face models

Face grouping occurs in three steps:

  • We detect whether any photo has a face in it.
  • If the confront grouping feature is turned on, algorithmic models are used to predict the similarity of different images and estimate whether two images correspond the same face.
  • Photos that are likely to represent the same confront are grouped together. Yous can always remove a photo from a group if you recollect it's in the wrong group.

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

Face groups, face labels and sharing

  • Face labels are private to each account and not shared beyond accounts.
  • Face groups are non shared when you share photos.
  • By default, face up groups and labels in your account are merely visible to you.
  • You can cull to label a face up group equally 'Me' and help your contacts' Google Photos apps recognise your face up in photos more hands. This helps your contacts get suggestions to share photos of you with you. Acquire how to characterization your face group.

When face grouping is turned on, you lot let the states know that you want to make a model of your face.

To delete your models, plow off face grouping.

Remove, modify or add people and pet labels to your photos

If Google Photos misses or incorrectly groups a photograph, y'all can change, remove or add a photo to a face grouping.

This feature isn't available in all countries.

Change which face up group a photo belongs to

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