In the Photos app, you can quickly find photos and videos from your trips grouped into collections, based on location data from the photos. They’re all in Trips, in Collections. And to help you find older trips, you can jump to a year.
Tap a year at the top of the screen to help you find older trips.
In the Notes app, you can add photos, videos, and information from other apps, such as maps, links, and documents.
That could be a location from Maps, a webpage from Safari, or a PDF from Files. You can change the preview size of attachments, and even draw on a photo. Photos and videos you take in Notes can be saved to the Photos app, too.
Here’s how to add photos, video, and more to notes on iPhone.
Information from another app can go into a note as an attachment, such as a screenshot, a PDF in Files, a webpage in Safari, or a location in Maps.
You can isolate the subject of a photo or video frame from its background, then copy or share it in other documents and apps. You can use this feature in Photos, Safari, Quick Look, and more.
Once the subject is lifted, you can paste it into an email, text message, or note, look it up to learn more about it, or add it as a sticker to use in Markup and Messages. You can also share it with AirDrop or Mail.
Browse the library in the Photos app to view your entire collection of photos and videos. You can go to a specific time in your library by year or month, and change the size and appearance of the photo thumbnails. You can also hide screenshots or photos shared with you in Messages.
In the library photo grid, you can change the size and appearance of photo thumbnails and manage what content is displayed in your library.
Quick tip: Pinch the screen to zoom in or out as you view the library.
Use star ratings to rank your photos and videos from 1 to 5 stars. After you apply ratings, you can filter your Photos library to quickly find your favorite shots.
Star ratings appear in the top-left corner of each image in your library grid, and you can change a rating, remove it, or apply one to an unrated image later. You can also filter by rating to see all items with that rating, or all items in your library without a rating.
Here’s how to apply star ratings to photos and videos on iPhone.
To remove the rating filter, tap the star at the top of the library, then tap Remove Filters.
Use the Photos app to view photos and videos on your iPhone.
You can open a photo to view it in full screen, then keep browsing, or use the thumbnails below the photo to quickly jump forward or back. On iPhone 12 or later, you can view the photo with a 3D effect using Spatial Scene. To focus on the photo you’re viewing, you can hide the controls onscreen. Videos play right in Photos, too.
Here’s how to view photos and videos on iPhone.
Quick tip: Tap the photo you’re viewing to hide the onscreen controls and focus on it, then tap it again to show the controls.
Use Photos on your iPhone to find your photos, enjoy your memories, and share your best shots. The Library tab shows all your photos organized by date, and memories turn your photos and videos into personalized collections set to music. You can also adjust light and color, crop, and add filters or styles.
Each memory centers on a theme, like a person, pet, place, event, or activity. You can share photos with Mail, Messages, or AirDrop, or share all the photos and videos in a collection.
To get started viewing your photos and videos, go to the Photos app. The Library tab shows all your photos organized by date. To view collections of photos—like Albums, Recent Days, People & Pets, and more—tap Collections .
Relive your favorite memories with personalized collections of photos and videos that are set to music and play like a movie. Tap Collections , tap Memories, then tap a memory. Each memory features photos from your library curated around a theme—like a person, pet, place, event, or activity.
To make your photos stand out, adjust light and color, crop, rotate, add a filter, and more. Open a photo or video, then tap the Edit button to start editing.
Open a photo or video, tap the Share button, then choose a sharing option like Mail, Messages, or AirDrop. To share all the photos and videos in a collection, tap the More button, then tap Share.
You can add photos and videos to and delete them from the albums you create in the Photos app. You can also search within an album to quickly find specific photos and videos.
You can work with several items at once, and search by location, date, keyword, and more. Your albums can be sorted and filtered, too.
Here’s how to add, delete, and find photos and videos in albums on iPhone.
Quick tip: Tap the Search button to look for photos by location, date, keyword, and more.
To add multiple photos or videos at the same time, tap Select, then tap the items you want to add.
Quick tip: To sort and filter your albums, tap the More button at the bottom of the screen. Looking for a specific album? Use the Search button.
The Photos app creates collections of your photos and videos based on where they were taken. You can use the Map view to see photos taken in a specific location, look for photos taken nearby, and see collections of photos on a map.
Only photos and videos with embedded location information, or GPS data, show up on the map. You can also check where any single photo or video was taken from its info.
A map lets you browse your photo library by location.
To see where a photo or video was taken, check its location while you’re viewing it.
Quick tip: Tap Show Nearby Photos for more photos or videos from this location.
On a map, you can also browse a collection’s photos and videos by location.
Some long video files are too large to send in a standard text message. You can use AirDrop, iCloud, or Mail Drop to send long videos that you record with your iPhone camera.
AirDrop is the simplest way to send a large video to someone nearby on an iPhone, iPad, Mac, or Apple Vision Pro, since it sends information using Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.
Here’s how to share long videos on iPhone.
AirDrop is the simplest way to send a large video to a nearby Mac, iPhone, iPad, or Apple Vision Pro. It sends information using Wi-Fi and Bluetooth®, so before you send anything, check that both you and the recipient have these controls turned on in Control Center.
If you want to send the video in its original format, including metadata, location, and any associated edit history or captions, tap Options, then turn on All Photos Data.
After you share, the recipient gets an alert asking them to accept or decline the AirDrop transfer.
With Mail Drop, you can send a large video as an attachment in Mail.
If you want to add a subject or message, tap the Subject field or email body.
Recipients have 30 days to download Mail Drop attachments.
