Every time I knowIt is more and more photos that we accumulate on our devices. And above all, because these already have a considerable capacity, becoming authentic walking photo warehouses. I don’t even want to imagine what might be inside 512GB or 1TB devices.
Any day we see you in need of finding a photo and in our mind we have a clear image to look for, but we don’t remember of the specific date or we begin to scroll through the Photos app from top to bottom without finding it.
And it is that we accumulate photos, videos, selfies, portraits, panoramas or screenshots in previously unimaginable quantities, of which we take magnitude and consideration when we take a look at everything that our device saves.
More than one has spent hours and hours looking at photos on their device when we have been dragging photos in the gallery for years.
How to search our photos on the iPhone or iPad
Organization
Above all, it is best to always be organized with our photo gallery and have some organizational system. The most neat, among which I include myself, have the photos organized by folders, albums and events, in one way or another using the wonderful Photos app.
An app that Apple pampers, cares for, and improves annually with each new iOS, iPadOS, and macOS that comes out, and that together with iCloud, work wonderfully by synchronizing our photos.
Those of us who have old and smaller capacity devices, but want to have our entire photo catalog available, on any device, without sacrificing space on it, use iCloud to have our photos synchronized in the Apple cloud, accessible at all times and organized to our liking.
Not only that, but also for having a backup in the event that the device breaks or “loses”. Woe to those who lose, misplace or have their iPhone stolen without having a backup copy made. But of course, make a backup of 256, 512 or 1024 GB, you’ll tell me who does it.
Those users are unlikely to make copies of their files and photos, nor are they likely to pay for space in iCloud, given a device with such a large storage capacity that they need to worry.
But everything comes, there will be a day when you end up buying another device with less capacity and then the real headaches with the space that your photos occupy will begin.
iCloud
I never tire of saying that the “ecosystem” set up by Apple is the best service that Apple sells. Everything works like a charm, in an effective, simple and worry-free way.
AND iCloud is the cloud where we can store our photos (apart from contacts, calendars, preferences and passwords) so that they are always available on any mobile device, tablet, Mac, PC or laptop, that is, anywhere.
With iCloud we are not only going to have comfort, but also a backup or backup of our information (in which the photos are included), and apart we are going to free our device from containing all our photos. They will all be there, but they will be consulted in the cloud as we need them.
The only problem with iCloud is that the free 5 GB account stopped making sense a long time ago because of how small it is compared to what we can already store on a device.
Imagine an iPhone 13 or 14 Pro with 1TB of storage to back up with a free 5GB account. Improbable.
In this Apple has not “evolved” over time, and we still maintain the 5 GB free for Apple ID, the 50 GB for €0.99/month, the 200 GB for €2.99/month or the 2 TB for €9.99/month.
Whenever I see Tim Cook saying, “One more thing…” I think he’s going to announce more iCloud space for the same price.
Search our photos on iPhone or iPad
Starting from the basis that we have the latest available iOS or iPadOS installediOS/iPadOS 16, because we already have halfway done to search for our photos.
In the Photos app itselfwe will find in the lower right corner the search symbol and when accessing it let’s see a search bar and different forms of location: Moments, People, Places, Categories or Groups.
search process
Apart from us being able to order and label the photos, the app itself is capable of cataloging our photos and recognizing pets, sea, lake, beach, cars, objects, etc., establishing Categories so that we can do simple searches or complex.
moments
Moments are those events in which we take more than one photo. Any event or celebration that we attend and we dedicate ourselves to taking photos, then they are registered as a moment to which we can give a name.
People
Apple’s facial recognition is amazing, so it recognizes faces that you can assign to contacts, that’s People. Once the minimum parameters have been established, the app will recognize itself and ask you to confirm that it has done its job well.
The more faces you confirm, the more accurate it will be when it comes to recognizing people. That way you can then search for all the photos of that particular contact, or groups of contacts.
Places
As with the geolocation of the photo (if you have that option activated), you can search by locations (Places), or through a geographical map, where The geolocated photos will be placed at the exact point where you took them.
And as for complex searches, you can search, for example: “photos of you with X person on the beach”. Because as we have mentioned, Photos also recognizes child objects.
As you can see, the possibilities are endless, so that you can use various parameters to obtain the optimal search results that make you find the photo/s you are looking for.
recommendations
It’s tedious, I know. It took me time to get used to it, but as we swell our digital archive, it becomes more necessary to dedicate a while from time to time or to be meticulous every time we take several photos, whether weekly or monthly, it is essential to classify.
The Photos app makes our lives much easier and if we combine it with iCloud, having our digital file perfectly organized and classified will be a breeze.
It is also essential to delete. Surely we have many identical photos of the same shot, but we never settle for the one that has come out the best.
That little dedication will make a difference between looking for our photos at all times or having them located almost instantly when needed.
And above all, it prepares us for a future in which there is more and more digital content. You already know, be organized.
