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View photos and videos in Photos on iPhone

Use the Photos app to find and view all of the photos and videos on your iPhone.

How photos and videos are organized in Photos

You navigate Photos using the Library, For You, Albums, and Search buttons at the bottom of the screen.

The photo library displayed in Days view. A selection of photo thumbnails fills the screen. In the top left of the screen are the date and location where the photos were taken. In the top right are the Select and More Options buttons to share photos and see details. Below the thumbnails are options to view the photo library by Years, Months, Days, and All Photos. Along the bottom are the Library, For You, Albums, and Search buttons.

Browse photos in your library

To browse your photos and videos by when they were taken, tap Library, then select any of the following:

  • Years: Quickly locate a specific year in your photo library.

  • Months: View collections of photos that you took throughout a month, organized by significant events—like a family outing, social occasion, birthday party, or trip.

  • Days: View your best photos in chronological order, grouped by the time or place the photos were taken.

  • All Photos: View all of your photos and videos.

Tip: When viewing All Photos, pinch the screen to zoom in or out. You can also tap the More button to zoom in or out, view photos by aspect ratio or square, filter photos, or see photos on a map.

Years, Months, and Days views are curated to show your best shots, and visual clutter like similar photos, screenshots, whiteboards, and receipts aren’t shown. To see every photo and video, tap All Photos.

View individual photos

Tap a photo to view it in full screen on your iPhone.

Double-tap or pinch out to zoom in on the photo—drag to see other parts of the photo; double-tap or pinch closed to zoom back out.

Tap the Favorite button to add the photo to your Favorites album. See Use albums in Photos.

Tip: When viewing a Live Photo the Live Photo button, touch and hold the photo to play it.

A photo with thumbnails of other photos across the bottom of the screen. At the top left is a back button, which takes you back to the view in which you were browsing. Along the bottom are the Share, Like, and Delete buttons. In the top right is the Edit button.

Tap the Back button or drag the photo down to continue browsing or return to the search results.

See photo and video information

To see saved metadata information about a photo or video, open it, then tap the Info button or swipe up. Depending on the photo or video, you see the following details:

  • People identified in the photo

  • A caption field to describe the photo or video, and make it easier to find in Search

  • Items detected by Visual Look Up

  • Whether the photo was shared with you in Messages, another app, or iCloud Shared Photo Library

  • The date and time the photo or video was taken; tap Adjust to edit the date and time

  • Camera metadata such as lens, shutter speed, file size, and more

  • Where the photo or video was taken; tap the link to view the location in Maps; tap Adjust to edit the location

The top half of the iPhone screen shows a photo open in the Photos app. The bottom half of the screen shows the photo information including, from top to bottom, the date and time, the filename, the iPhone model and camera settings, and a map. At the bottom of the screen, from left to right, are the Share button, the Favorite button, the Info button, and Delete. The Info button is selected.
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