Siri is like your helping hand which helps you do everything with just a voice command. You might be using it to do simple and small tasks like setting an alarm or reminder or just ask her to place a call. Although, you can use Siri for complex tasks, like search for a specific picture on your iPhone or iPad. You can tell the date and place of the picture and Siri will find it for you. There are different ways you can use Siri to find pictures. Here is how you can use Siri to search photos on your iOS device:
What you will see?
Find photos with Siri based on time
When you click a picture with your iPhone, it is saved according to the date and time of the picture taken. Thus, when you ask Siri to search for the picture it becomes easier. Follow these:
- To start Siri, you can simply give the voice command “Hey Siri“, or press and hold the Home or Side button.
- Then you can ask Siri to search for a picture, you can say “Show me photos from last week.” or ” show me photos from (specific date)”.
- You can be more specific with the time of the picture, like telling the specific date or month for the picture and Siri will find it for you.
Use Siri to search photos based on location
Every picture you take has the location saved from where the picture is taken in your iPhone. Unless and until you have turned off the location feature on your device, the pictures are sorted for different locations. Thus you can ask Siri to search for a picture from a specific location. Follow these:
- To start Siri, you can simply give the voice command “Hey Siri“, or press and hold the Home or Side button.
- Then you can ask Siri to search for a picture, you can say “Show me photos from Times Square.”
Find Photos based on time and location with Siri
You can ask Siri to find pictures based on time as well as the location at once. Sometimes there are many pictures of the same location like the pictures from your trip to Greece. But you want to share the picture of a specific day from your trip, then you can simply ask Siri to find the picture from Tokyo taken in say in the month of March. Follow these:
- To start Siri, you can simply give the voice command “Hey Siri“, or press and hold the Home or Side button.
- Then you can ask Siri to search for a picture, you can say “Show me photos from Tokyo in March.”
Search photos of things with Siri in iOS
With Apple‘s new feature, it can detect the objects in a picture and thus you can ask Siri to find a picture based on this. You can ask for pictures of mountains, beach, food, etc. Follow these:
- To start Siri, you can simply give the voice command “Hey Siri“, or press and hold the Home or Side button.
- Then you can ask Siri to search for a picture, you can say “Show me photos of beach.”
Conclusion
With Siri, all your tasks become easier. Anything you want to do with your mobile you can ask Siri to help you. This goes with finding your pictures from the gallery. You can ask Siri to find a picture that you had taken last month. You can give a specific time duration the picture was taken in to Siri and she will find it. Moreover, same goes for the location for your pictures. You just need to tell the location the picture was taken in and Siri will get it for you. Although, your location feature needs to be turned on while taking the picture for this. Moreover, you can tell both the time and location for Siri to find the picture. Also, you can specify an object from the picture like a beach or dog and ask Siri to find it.
