Use Memories to Unearth Old Photos

The Memories view ① builds collections of photos and videos based on a time, place, or theme, so you don’t have to do the work to gather everything together.

**①** The Memories pane shows collections of images and videos that Photos thinks you might like.
① The Memories pane shows collections of images and videos that Photos thinks you might like.

Located under Library in the sidebar (or in its own tab on iOS), the Memories view contains a scrollable list of rectangles labeled with what they contain. Memories are organized automatically by Photos based on a few different concepts: the recent past (“Best of Last Month”), this same time in a previous year (“On This Day”), locations (“Kauai”), and even themes ...

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