Sometimes you suddenly lose photos in the Photos app and you keep scrolling back and forth. We show you how to find them quickly!
This way you can find photos that you have lost
There are all kinds of potential reasons that you may have lost a photo and cannot find it again. Maybe because of the many photos you can no longer see the forest for the trees. But you may have accidentally deleted or hidden the photo in question. We’ll show you how to find the photo again!
Use the search function
By far the best way to quickly find lost photos is to use the search function. It works much better than you probably think. The function recognizes text on a photo, but also people, animals and all kinds of objects. Just tap the magnifying glass at the top of the screen and type anything that shows up in the photo you’re looking for.
As you type what you’re looking for, you’ll automatically see suggestions. At the same time, search results also appear immediately. For example, all the photos of my cat appear when I have only typed a ‘k’ and an ‘a’. If there are too many search results, you can filter them further.
You can combine search terms. You do this by tapping on one of the suggestions and then entering a second search term. You will then receive suggestions for that second search term again. In principle, you can continue in the same way until there are only a few search results left. But in most cases, two search terms are sufficient.
Hidden and deleted photos
You may also have lost photos because you may or may not have accidentally hidden them. In that case, the photo has been placed in a hidden folder. So check that folder to see if this has indeed happened. You do this as follows:
Make sure you have the ‘Other’ option enabled. To do this, tap ‘Adjust and change order’ at the very bottom of the Photos app. There you place a check mark in front of ‘Other’, after which you close the screen with the cross at the top right. Now tap ‘Hidden’ at the bottom of the screen and then tap ‘View album’. You will now see all the photos you have hidden.
In more or less the same way you can check if you have lost the photos because you may have deleted them. Under ‘Hidden’ it says ‘Recently deleted’. Tap that and then tap ‘View album’. Now you will see all the photos that you have deleted recently. If you want to remove a photo from here, press and hold it and choose ‘Restore’.
This way you won’t lose photos
Because you put your photos in the iCloud If you save photos, it almost never happens that you actually lose photos (check whether the ‘Sync this iPhone’ option is enabled in Settings>Apple Account>iCloud>Photos). Only if you manually delete a photo and you want to restore it after more than thirty days, you are out of luck. The photo is only kept for thirty days.
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