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It’s easy to use How to Search Photos With Siri. You can call up Siri by holding down the Home button or by saying “Hey Siri” if that option is turned on. Once she is listening, you can say something like, “Show me photos from June 30.” Siri isn’t useful for many things, but when it does work, it can save a lot of time.
For example, you can use Siri to look for photos in the photo library on your iPhone or iPad. Say something like, “Hey Siri, show me photos of clowns,” and it will do just that by opening the Photos app, switching to the search tab, and entering the search term “clowns” for you. Even if you’re already in the Photos app and looking at the search tab, it’s still easier to use Siri to search than to tap something into the search field, delete the previous search, and type a new one.
How to Search Photos With Siri
- Press and hold the Home or Side button to launch Siri, or say “Hey, Siri.”
- Say something like “Show me photos from September.”
With Siri based on location
Unless you’ve turned off your location services, every photo taken on your iPhone or iPad is automatically tagged with geolocation, meaning that if you know where the photos were taken, Siri can find them for you.
- Press and hold the Home or Side button to launch Siri, or say “Hey, Siri.”
- Say something like “Show me photos from Cupertino.”
With Siri based on objects
Apple added the ability to search for things like mountains, lakes, food, cats, and so on. If you search for something that isn’t searchable in your Photos app, Siri will show you a web search result instead.
- Press and hold the Home or Side button to launch Siri, or say “Hey, Siri.”
- Say something like “Show me photos of cats.”
What is Siri?
Siri is designed to make it easy for you to find what you need on your iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, Apple Watch, HomePod, or Mac by talking to her and having her talk back to you. You can ask her questions, ask her to show you something, or give her commands that she will carry out on your behalf without you having to touch anything.
Siri has access to all of the other built-in apps on your Apple device, like Mail, Contacts, Messages, Maps, Safari, and so on. When she needs to, she can ask those apps to show her information or look through their databases. Siri does all the work for you in the end.
How does Siri work?
Siri is based on Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing, and it has three parts: a conversational interface, personal context awareness, and service delegation. The conversational interface is about how Siri can understand you in the first place. Straight word-for-word voice recognition has to work well for it to understand what you’re saying, but figuring out what you’re saying is all about statistics and machine learning, which is where the personal context awareness system comes in.
