How to find images in Google Photos

Google Photos makes backing up photos and videos from your phone pretty seamless: set it to work in the background and all your precious memories are saved to the cloud without you having to do anything else.  

The smoothness of this process does tend to mean you can find yourself with a rather gigantic collection, however — which then creates its own problems when it comes to finding specific items in your ever-growing library. But even if you have a photo library spanning decades, there are tools to help.

These are some of the search tricks you can try to find images and videos in Google Photos. 

Search by person (or pet)

Google Photos can recognize people and pets in your photos, and it can even recognize individuals as they age over time. 

In the web app, you search for a person or pet via the search box atop the Google Photos interface or via the People and pets link on the left-hand navigation panel. 

In the mobile app, use the search icon at the bottom right of the screen.

If you’ve never identified the person before or if the algorithm doesn’t recognize them, you will have to help out with the identification.

First, make sure face grouping is enabled …

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