Photo Search
Find a photo
by the day you took it.
An exact day, a range of dates, a place.
Search runs on your iPhone.
Kamakura coast · 96 photos 
Cat days · 64 photos 
To search photos on iPhone by an exact day or between two dates, type the date into PicWay’s search, or join two dates with a hyphen, like 20240801-20240921. You can also search places, journeys, album names, and tags you added. Every search runs on your iPhone.
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What you can search
What can I search for
in PicWay?
Type it the way you’d say it.
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An exact day
Type May 1, 2025 or 1 May 2025. You get the photos from that day.
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A range of dates
Join two dates with a hyphen, like 20240801-20240921. Two years work too, like 2019-2021.
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The same day, every year
Leave out the year. May 1 finds May 1 in every year of your library.
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Places and journeys
Search a place, and the journeys you took there show up first.
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Albums and tags
Search an album name, or a tag you added to a photo yourself.
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Words and everyday things
Words in a photo, and things like a dog, a cat, or flowers. PicWay looks for these in the background, only while your iPhone is charging.
Narrow it down
Mix a date, a place,
and a type.
Add a word like video, Live, screenshot, or favorite to the date or place you typed. Nothing found? PicWay doesn’t quietly widen the search. It suggests you try fewer conditions.
Kamakura coast · 96 photos Cat days · 64 photos On your iPhone
Your searches stay
on your iPhone.
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Search runs on your iPhone
PicWay doesn’t upload your photos or videos to search them, and there’s no account.
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Place names stay here
With Precise Places on, PicWay sends only a photo’s coordinates to Apple’s location service to get the place name. Place names stay on this iPhone, and turning off Precise Places clears them.
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Recent searches
Your recent searches wait at the top of Search. Remove one, or clear them all.
Compared with Photos
What the Photos app
already searches
The Photos app on iPhone already searches a month or year, places, categories like beach, and text in your photos. PicWay adds the parts below.
| Photos app | A month or year, a city or state, categories, events, named people and pets, text, captions (Apple iPhone User Guide, iOS 27) |
|---|---|
| PicWay: one day | An exact day, like May 1, 2025 |
| PicWay: a range | Two dates joined by a hyphen, like 20240801-20240921 |
| PicWay: every year | May 1 with no year finds that day in every year |
| PicWay: journeys and tags | Search a place and see your journeys there first; search tags you added |