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.

Library: Browse your photos and videos organized by days, months, years, and all photos.
For You: View your memories, shared photos, and featured photos in a personalized feed; see Watch memories in Photos on iPhone.
Albums: View albums you created or shared, and your photos organized automatically by categories—for example, People & Pets, Places, and Media Types; see Use photo albums in Photos on iPhone and Edit, share, and organize albums on iPhone.
Search: Type in the search field to search for photos by date, location, caption, or objects they contain. Or browse photos already grouped by important events, people, places, and categories; see Search for photos on iPhone.
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 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 to add the photo to your Favorites album. See Use albums in Photos.
Tip: When viewing a Live Photo , touch and hold the photo to play it.

Tap 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 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
