▶️ How to search Google Photos from your mobile

Surely you've already heard that the services of this app will no longer be free, so we'll tell you how to search Google Photos from your mobile, in case you have to start removing some…

From June 1, 2021 Google Photos is no longer 100% free for its users; once you exceed 15GB of storage (those are still free), it is necessary to pay to have more space. Failure to do so may erase your oldest data.

Depending on the storage needs of each person, this cost ranges from 1.99 euros per month (or 19.99 per year) for 100 GB; up to 9.99 euros per month (or 99.99 euros per year) for 2TB.Whether you want to delete some images to save yourself this money,or if you want to remember old times or go back to see the photos of that person... We'll tell you how search Google Photos from your mobile!

How to search Google Photos from your mobile

To find out how to search Google Photos from your mobile, first make sure that your phone is associated with a Google account.If so, the folder with all the applications will appear directly on your screen, including Google Photos: locate the icon seen in the image and press.

Once inside, there are many ways to search for photos, very similar to what you normally do from your PC. Look!

When you enter, look for the magnifying glass, at the bottom center, and several options will appear: places, things, people… If any It does not come out of them, it is normal, as Google itself explains "some functions are not available in all countries, in all domains or in all types of accounts", but you can also activate them, as we will explain later.

Below, you'll also see that other options like selfies, screenshots, videos,etc are defaulted. You can go into these folders depending on what you are looking for. But, if you want to do a more precise search, keep reading!

How to use the Google Photos search engine

Knowing how to use the Google Photos search engine can help you find the image you need. The search engine will appear at the top of your screen: it is the bar where you can write what you are looking for.

An example: if you put the word “sea”, all the photos you have in the beach cloud will automatically appear. You can use all the search terms you can think of: names of people, countries, things... The more tags you have put on your photos, the more refined the search will be but, in general, it will not be necessary to find images.

How to find people in Google Photos

If you want to find images with a specific person, we'll tell you how to search for people in Google Photos. The first option is Simple, put the name of that person in the search engine: if you have tagged them in an image or if their name appears in the photo, you already have it.

However, there is another much more practical option that is “Activate grouping by faces”. To do this, look at the bottom of the Google Photos interface in the "Search" section. As seen in the following image:

When entering, you just have to select the option. If it doesn't appear right away, don't worry, it may take a while. If you have done it correctly, you will now have direct access to the “People & Pets” folder.

This step can also be done in another way if you are interested in a specific person:

Search for a photo of that person.
Press the pencil that appears to the right of the phrase “1 side available to add”.
Select the face. And on the screen that asks you if you want to create a new person, click "Create".
Then add a name.

Google will identify the images in which that person appears and group them together. So if you want to find a photo of that person, Either you enter their folder or you put their name in the search engine. Then yes, all your photos will appear.

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