In addition to regular photo albums, the Photos app for Mac lets you create smart albums that help you organize your photos in different ways. With smart albums, you can categorize your photos using various filters, such as location, date, and people. This tutorial shows you how to create and use smart albums in the Photos app on Mac.
Tip: Make sure you check out all the Other great features in the Mac Photos app.
What are smart albums?
Smart Albums is a feature in the Mac Photos app that organizes photos in your library that meet conditions you specify. For example, you can create a smart album that groups photos taken with your iPhone 13 Pro. The smart album will then group all the photos in your library that meet that condition into a single album.
Conditions you can specify when creating smart albums
You can specify one or more conditions when creating a smart album on your Mac. Here are the conditions you can specify:
- Album
- Date taken
- Date added
- Caption
- file name
- Keyword
- Person
- Photo (favorite, hidden, taken in portrait mode, etc.)
- نص
- address
- slot
- Camera model
- flash
- Focal Length
- ISO
- lens
- shutter speed
After selecting a condition, you can access the details and choose how to group smart albums of photos based on that condition. For example, you can set a smart album to group photos taken with or without the iPhone 13 Pro, photos taken with camera models older than the iPhone 13 Pro, and so on.
Tip: Do you have content in the Photos app that you want to keep private? Learn more. How to Hide Photos and Videos on Your iPhone.
How to create smart albums
Here's how to create Smart Albums on your Mac:
- Fill Photos application of docking bar On a Mac or Spotlight Search Or Launchpad.
- Once the Photos app is launched, tap "a file" From the menu bar, select “Smart new album…” or press Option + Command + N.
- Add a name for your smart album, then add a condition and click "OK". If you want to apply more than one condition, click "+" As far right as you want, add additional condition(s), then click "OK".
- You will be taken to an album with the name you chose that contains all the photos in your library that meet the conditions you specified.
- To check if an image meets your criteria, right-click on it, and then select “Get information”.
- The information window will appear. Image file name , the date and time it was taken, the camera model used, the location it was taken, and more.
Tip: You can add more information to your photos in the Info window, such as captions and keywords. This information can also be used as a condition when creating smart albums. You can also Use Live Text to extract text from images and videos in Photos.
Search for images without location data
Using this condition, you can find all the photos in your library that don't contain location data. After the smart album collects these photos, you can manually add location and other data.
To do this, select “Image -> Not -> GPS tagged” From the new smart album creation window.
Search for photos taken with a specific camera
If you have photos in your library that were taken with different smartphone or digital camera models, you can also create smart albums to organize them.
To create this type of smart album, select camera model , Then "Includes" , then the camera used in the photos you're looking for when creating a new smart album.
Find photos that include specific people
If you want to group photos that contain a specific person's face, you first need to add names to the faces that the Photos app has detected.
In the Photos app, go to "people" In the right sidebar, hover over a known face. Click "the name" When it appears, then add that person's name.
To find photos that contain the person you mentioned earlier, select "person" ، "Includes" , then select the person's name from the drop-down list when creating a new smart album.
Frequently Asked Questions
Q1: Can I create and view smart albums on my iPhone or iPad?
The answer: Smart Albums is a feature only available in the Photos app for Mac. It also doesn't sync with iCloud, so even if you have Smart Albums created on your Mac, you won't be able to see them on your iPhone or iPad.
Q2: Can I create a custom condition?
The answer: You can't create a custom status, but you can add more than one so your smart album is set to display only the photos you want to see.
