How to find images in Google Photos

You may not know it, but Google Photos is the best photography tool you can have on your mobile. And not only for saving all the photos, videos, screenshots, memes and other elements in an infinite space. Nor for being able to order them intelligently to keep everything safe. But to be able to recover any memory. And it is important that you know how to search for your photos in Google Photos if you are a somewhat messy user. For this reason, in this article, we are going to give you several keys when reviewing your entire photo collection and not getting lost in the attempt.

Search by date

It is the easiest and fastest way, as long as you have enough head to remember when the photo you are looking for was taken. There are two formulas to do it: one through search and another through the slider bar to move through the entire collection.

The quickest thing is to click on the bar on the right of the general album In this way, as soon as you slide quickly down and hold your finger, you will see a date label appear. Month and year specifically. Also, above the grid, you'll see other labels that refer to years (if you've been storing photos on the service for several years). In this way, it is very convenient to jump to a specific month of a given year and, once there, examine the photographs taken.

The other way is search for the date in the application's search engine Just enter the month to find a list of suggestions for years. Thus, with month and year you can quickly jump to that selection. In this way the search is greatly shortened. Of course, with this formula you cannot search beyond the marked period, while with the sliding bar you can jump between months and years without having to search again.

Auto Albums

The key tool of Google Photos is its intelligence And, when you already have a large collection, it's easy to get lost in it. However, thanks to the image recognition of this service (it analyzes what is in your photos), you can create automatic albums around specific concepts, people, dates or situations.

To find these groupings you just have to jump to the tab albums First, Google Photos shows you a carousel with these automatic albums. Browse groupings of photos around places, things, videos, collages, animations, or movies. When entering each album you can see all these photos ordered by date, always repeating the theme or format.

In this same tab Google Photos also sorts other albums, just not created automatically. These are the folders on the device. And, further down, if you have been sorted, there are also the albums created by you.

Smart Finder

But the jewel in the crown is the intelligent search engine Precisely thanks to Google's aforementioned image recognition, its search engine becomes useful.You can search for holidays like Christmas to find a selection of photos around this date or that have this theme. But you can also search for “dog” to find all the photos in your gallery that feature a dog.

Also, you don't have to type anything. When you click on the search engine, a multitude of criteria are displayed to filter all your photos From recent searches to formats (video, selfies, screenshots, movies, animations... ) and even locations. So you can quickly jump to these criteria to see the collection of photos and videos around them. Everything is easy to find your memories.