How to find receipts, QR codes, recently edited photos, and more on iPad

In the Photos app, you can find collections of photos and videos organized into different categories in Utilities. You can revisit photos that you captured, or recently edited, saved, or shared.

You can also find photos based on their content—like identity documents, receipts, handwriting, illustrations, and QR codes. And you can reorder the Utilities list to put the collections you use most at the top. For your privacy, some collections, like Hidden and Recently Deleted, are locked by default.

Find receipts, QR codes, and more in Utilities

1. Open the Photos app on your iPad.
2. Tap Collections, scroll down, and tap Utilities.
3. Tap the collection you want to view.

   Note: Some Utilities collections, like Hidden and Recently Deleted, are locked by default for your privacy. See Lock and unlock the Recently Deleted and Hidden collections.

Reorder the Utilities list

You can reorder the Utilities list to help you find the collections you access most often.

1. Open the Photos app on your iPad.
2. Tap Collections, then tap Edit at the top of the screen.
3. Touch and hold the collection you want to reorder and then drag it to a new position.
4. When you’re done, tap the checkmark at the top of the screen.

Find recovered items and save or delete them

If a photo or video wasn’t saved properly and couldn’t be added to your library, you may find a copy of it in Recovered.

1. Open the Photos app on your iPad.
2. Tap Collections, scroll down, and tap Utilities.
3. Tap Recovered and then tap the photo or video you want to recover.
4. Tap Permanently Delete or Restore to Library.

   Important: When you delete a recovered photo or video, it’s deleted permanently. You can’t recover photos that you deleted from the Recovered collection in Utilities.

See also

• Search for photos and videos on iPad
• Find recently saved photos and videos on iPad
• Locate photos and videos by media type on iPad