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Organise your photos

1 View by…

Click these buttons to display shots in time-based collections. The All Photos option displays thousands of same-sized thumbnails. Click Days to condense thumbnails into an easy-to-browse range of thumbnail sizes.

2 Making memories

You can click here to discover Memories automatically created by Photos. The app tends to gather a collection of images that share the same time and location.

3 Media types

This collection of albums automatically displays photos and clips according to specific properties. For example, the Selfies option gathers pictures of faces that were captured by your iPhone’s front camera.

4 Manual albums

Instead of relying on Photo’s automated albums you can create and manually populate your own, or create a Smart Album to automatically gather pictures with a particular property.

5 Metadata

Click here to summon a photo’s Info panel, which

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