Photos

Browse, edit, and share your picture-perfect moments. Photos is the home for all of your amazing photos and videos, and it's smart and personal, with intelligent features that help you find, enjoy, and share your best shots.*

Browse your library
• The Library tab displays your photos and videos in an interactive, zoomable grid, with options to view by Months and Years
• Quickly filter down to specific content types, like photos that have been edited, or choose to remove screenshots from the view

Browse by Collections
• The Collections tab organizes your library by topics, like Recent Days, People & Pets, Trips, Memories, your custom albums, Wallpaper Suggestions, and more
• Media Types organizes your photos by type like Selfies, Videos, Portraits, and Screenshots
• Utilities gathers photos by useful topics like Duplicates, Documents, Receipts, and Handwriting
• Pinned Collections lets you put your most frequently accessed content right at your fingertips

Customize the Photos app just for you
• Reorder Collections sections and choose a size to enjoy just the way you like them
• Choose to add items to Pinned Collections to keep your most-used items close at hand

Find just what you're looking for with powerful Search
• On-device machine learning analyzes your photos so you can search for people, places, dates, events, and even objects and scenes like basketball, birthday cake, or beach

Organize your photos into albums
• Create albums of your favorite topics

Relive your memories
• Spatial scenes let you view your photos with a delightful 3D effect
• Memories uses on-device intelligence to find trips, holidays, people, pets, and more in your collection, and presents them as movies paced to music, or create your the memory you want to see using Apple Intelligence

Perfect your photos in Edit
• Fine‑tune your photos and videos with powerful tools like auto enhance, highlights, shadows, vibrance, and definition, and apply edits to another image or to a batch
• Remove distractions with a tap using Clean Up
• Slow down high frame rate videos for slow motion effects

Share with friends and family
• Share to Messages, Mail, and third party apps
• Share photos seamlessly with up to five other family members with iCloud Shared Photo Library
• Use Shared Albums to share photos and videos with just the people you choose
• iCloud Links let you send a set of photos and videos that can be viewed on any platform, in any browser

Keep your library safe and up to date with iCloud Photos
• Store your photos and videos safely in iCloud and access them from any device, any time, including iPhone, iPad, and Mac, Apple Vision Pro, on iCloud.com, or even on a PC

Keep your photos private
• Photos protects your privacy by using on-device intelligence to analyze your photos and videos
• Face recognition, scene detection, object detection and more are all done completely on your device
• The Hidden and Recently Deleted albums are locked by default

Use the Photos app on Apple Watch to access your favorite photos right on your wrist
Relive your favorite moments with highlights from Memories
Create a Photos or Portrait watch face

• Not all features are available on all iPhone or iPad models. Refer to your device’s user guide for information on feature support.