BucketsSearching for contact photos
How names find photos, how possible matches work and why a photo may be excluded.
Say or type it: "pictures of Jane", "photos of Jane at the beach", "videos of Jane". A name in the box finds the contact, the photos they are in and the events they attended, all at once. Two names together — "Jane and me" — finds where both of them are.
A name is matched first against your buckets: a bucket called Jane answers directly, with no recognition involved. Then your contacts, by their name and by the nickname you gave them. Adding photos to a bucket named after the contact gives the most reliable result.
Buckets uses the face from a contact card and reads each photo on the phone once. A sufficiently similar face associates the photo with that contact and includes it in searches. Processing occurs on the phone.
Clear matches are added automatically; less certain matches are shown as possible matches on the contact card, with options to confirm or reject them. Rejected matches are not shown again. A photo is not included in a contact search until you confirm the match.
A photo may be missing because indexing is not complete, the contact card has no picture, the face is not visible in the photo, or the photo is waiting for you to confirm it.
In each case, the quickest fix is to add the photos to a bucket. Tap the first photo, scroll and hold the last to select the whole range, then choose a bucket. Those photos are then found exactly, with no recognition required, including photos with no visible face.
Buckets does not judge what a photo shows from a face. “Photos of contacts” checks whether a face is present, and “photos of nobody” finds photos without a detected face. “Photos of women” uses the Gender field on contact cards, not visual appearance.