Finding photos

Filter

Open the Filter from the funnel at the top left of the Gallery. Pick people (any of them, or all of them together), places, events, tags, a year, month or day, and switches such as Marked Only, Faces Not All Named, No Faces, No Place, Photos or Videos, and Hide Selfies or Hide Screenshots. Curator adds more: Hide Thumbs Down, From Family Only, Scanned Prints Only and the other Kinds. The filter keeps the Moment you are in and skips Moments with nothing in them; a banner at the top says what is on, and its ✕ clears it. The same filter also narrows Memory Lane.

Livo Search

Tap Search in the bottom bar (open Livo Search), or tap the search field at the top of the Gallery, and type or dictate a few words: a name, a place, a tag, a word from a story, a word from a scanned print, or a date. As you type, Livo suggests names, places, tags and words from your stories, and shows your recent searches. The results appear in the Gallery.

Under the field, Livo shows what it understood as chips, one for each piece: a person, a place, a tag, a story word, a date, or a kind such as videos or favorites. Tap a chip to see what else that word could mean, with the number of photos for each, and pick one. A gray chip is a word Livo could not place; a dotted chip is a spelling guess (“Anna?”) you can confirm. Tap a chip’s ✕ to drop it.

Livo understands ordinary phrasing:

• Dates and ages: “last summer”, “Christmas 2019”, “since 2020”, “Anna at 16”, “when Tom was born”.
• Family words: “my daughters”, “my son-in-law”, “my daughter’s birthday”, from the relationships you set on People.
• Only: “only Jack”, “just the cousins”, “Jane and Jack alone”. Only named people count.
• Events: the name of any event you made (“zoo trip”, “Thanksgiving 2019”) finds its photos; when an event has none yet, the card says so.
• Kinds: videos, only photos, marked, edited photos, edited segments, stitched videos, video frames.

If nothing is found, Livo suggests the nearest spelling or widens one piece and says which; it does not leave you at an empty screen.

Livo Search can learn, but only when you say yes. If you change a chip to a person, Livo may ask “Add ‘Grandpa Joe’ as a name for Joseph?” or “Remember ‘the cabin’ as Lake Lure house?”. Photos you open and share lift their words higher in the suggestions, and never change what a search finds. See and remove everything Livo has learned in Settings › Livo Search › What Livo has learned. Livo Search only finds; it never changes anything.

While a search is on, the Filter sheet shows it under From Livo Search, with Clear search to drop just the search and keep your other filters.

Finding one photo’s Moment

With one photo selected, Find Moment jumps to the Moment it belongs to and scrolls to it. On the Memory canvas, tapping a photo does the same.