Tag your photos to help keep them organized

If you’re like most folks, you take hundreds of photos on your smartphone, but you have a really hard time finding key shots — unless you know about tags. Using tags to identify people on

your iPhone or on apps such as Google Photos and Amazon Photos will take a little time to set up. But once completed, searching for your friends, family members or newfound acquaintances

will be way easier and save you a lot of time in the end. Instead of looking by date or location, you simply type the person’s name, or better yet, click their image on a thumbnail. In the

past, people have tried adding captions or keywords to their photos in the hopes that finding those photos would be easier. That process works, but it’s very time consuming. Since Apple,

Google and Amazon now use facial recognition to prioritize people search, tagging takes less time. You can do it on either the computer or smartphone. Here’s how: HOW IT WORKS ON APPLE

COMPUTERS, IPHONES, IPADS • ON A MACINTOSH COMPUTER, open the included Photos app and find a photo you want to tag. Click the INFO BUTTON Ⓘ, the one with the circle around the lowercase “i”

that’s in the top-right menu. A pop-up menu comes up, where you want to click ADD FACES or the thumbnail of the subject in the photo. After finding the picture you want to tag in the Apple

Photos app on Macintosh computers, click the info button and you’ll be able to name all the subjects. Apple This works not just in a solo shot but with multiple faces. You are directed to

name them. Do that for each face, and they will start showing up in your searches. And when you take new photos of these people, the machine learning will learn their faces and they’ll be

tagged in both new and old photos. On iPhones, Apple inserts thumbnails shots of the subjects; when you click on one of them, you can fill in the person’s name. Apple • ON AN IPHONE OR IPAD,

 open the Photos app and find a shot of the person you want to tag. Click the INFO BUTTON Ⓘ, which is at the bottom of the screen. If Amazon Photos’ artificial intelligence doesn’t recognize

a face, it will ask you “Who’s This?” Amazon In the photo, Apple inserts a little circle shot of the subject at the bottom left. Click it and the menu asks you to TAG WITH NAME. Do so, and

the contact is now tagged.