Search by people, things & places in your photos

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

  • A wedding y'all attended concluding summer
  • Your all-time friend
  • A pet
  • Your favorite city

Important: Some features are not available in all countries, all domains, or all account types.

Search your photos

  1. On your estimator, get to photos.google.com/search.
  2. In the box at the peak, enter what you want to detect, for example:
    • New York City
    • A name or nickname, if you've labeled people or pets.

Find photos of a person or pet & add a name

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

Of import: This feature is not bachelor in all countries, all domains, or all business relationship types.

Footstep 1: Observe photos of a person or pet

  1. On your reckoner, become to photos.google.com/people.
  2. Click a confront to see photos of them.

If you don't see a row of faces:

  • The feature is non available in your country.
  • You turned face groups off in settings. Learn how to turn on face up grouping.
  • No face groups accept been recognized.

Tip: To detect photos of a person without searching, click Explore and then People & Pets.

Step ii: Add a name

  1. At the top of a face up group, click Add a proper noun.
  2. Enter a name or nickname.

You'll be able to search with that proper name characterization using the search box. Just you lot can come across the private face labels you choose, even if you share those photos.

Tip: To find photos without searching, click Explore. At the top, you can click items like People, Places, or Things.

Plough confront grouping off or on

You can stop group like faces together in your photos.

If you lot turn off face grouping, you lot delete:

  • Face groups in your account
  • Face models used to create those face groups
  • Face up labels you created

To plough face group off or on:

  1. On your estimator, go to photos.google.com/settings.
  2. Side by side to "Grouping similar faces," click Show more Down Arrow.
  3. Plow Face grouping off or on.
    • To turn off face grouping merely for pets, turn off Prove pets with people.

Advanced tips

Change or remove a label

You can edit or remove your face group labels.

Combine face groups

If the same person is in more 1 grouping, y'all can merge them.

  1. Label ane of the confront groups with a name or nickname.
  2. Characterization the other face group with the same proper noun or nickname, choosing from the suggestions.
  3. When you ostend the 2nd proper noun or nickname, Google Photos volition ask if you want to merge the face groups.

You lot might become a suggestion to merge 2 face groups. If they're the aforementioned person, click Yeah.

Remove a face group from the search page

If y'all don't want to run into a certain face group on your search page, you can remove it.

  1. On your computer, go to photos.google.com/people.
  2. At the top right, clickEvidence & hide faces.
  3. Click the face you want to hide. To show a face, click the box again.
  4. At the top right, click Done.

Remove an item from a group

If you see a photograph that's in the wrong group, you lot can take it out.

  1. On your estimator, go to photos.google.com/people.
  2. Click the face group you want to remove something from.
  3. Click More than and then Remove results.
  4. Select the photos or videos you desire to remove from the group.
  5. At the top, click Remove.

Tip: If yous remove an item from a group, information technology volition non delete the photograph or video from your Google Photos library.

Change a feature photo

Learn about face models

Face grouping occurs in 3 steps:

  1. We detect whether any photograph has a face in it.
  2. If the face group feature is turned on, algorithmic models are used to predict the similarity of dissimilar images and estimate whether two images represent the same face.
  3. Photos that are probable to represent the aforementioned confront are grouped together. Y'all tin can always remove a photo from a grouping if you think information technology's in the wrong grouping.

When face grouping is on, Google Photos may besides include photos in a particular group based on other characteristics. This includes photos beingness taken shut together in time and detecting that a person is wearing the aforementioned vesture across photos when a face is not visible.

Face up groups, face labels & sharing

  • Face labels are private to each account and non shared across accounts.
  • Face up groups are not shared when you share photos.
  • By default, face groups and labels in your account are only visible to you.
  • You tin can cull to label a face group as "Me" to assistance your contacts' Google Photos apps recognize your face up in photos. This helps your contacts go suggestions to share photos of you with you. Learn how to label your face up group.

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

To delete your models, turn off Face grouping.

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

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

This feature isn't available in all countries.

Change which face group a photo belongs to

You can add, remove, or change a face label when Google Photos labels the incorrect person or pet.

  1. On your computer, go to photos.google.com.
  2. Select a photo.
  3. Click Info Info.
  4. Scroll to "People" and click Edit Edit.
  5. Remove, add together, or alter a label:
  6. Click Washed.

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