How to Find All Photos of One Person on iPhone

Whether you're making a birthday video, a memorial, or just want every photo of your kid in one place, your iPhone can find them for you. Here are the two ways — the built-in one, and the one that turns the result into a video.

Method 1: the People album in Apple Photos

1. Open Photos and go to Albums → People & Pets.
2. Tap the face of the person you're looking for. Photos shows images it has matched to them.
3. Tap the name field to name the person — after that you can find them via Search too.
4. Scroll to review; confirm or reject suggested photos to improve the grouping over time.

This works well for browsing. Its limits show up when you want to do something with those photos: the auto-generated Memories it offers are short, algorithm-curated highlights — a few dozen shots picked for you, the rest left out — and building anything longer means selecting and exporting photos by hand.

Method 2: Timory — find them, then watch them grow

Timory starts from the same idea — on-device face recognition, nothing uploaded — and takes it to the destination most people actually want:

1. Scan. Timory scans your library (large libraries and iCloud Photos supported) and groups every photo and video by person.
2. Pick the person. You see their complete photo history in chronological order — every photo, not a curated sample.
3. Make it a video. One tap turns the timeline into a smooth video with transitions and music. Choose the years, add or remove shots, export up to 4K, share anywhere.

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