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How to Create Smart Albums for Family Photos on Mac
Learn how to create a Smart Album on a Mac to automatically group your family photos by name or date, and understand device syncing limitations.
To create a Smart Album for family photos on a Mac, you can navigate to the File menu to choose New Smart Album, assign a custom name, and select specific search criteria like a name or date to group your images automatically Apple Support.
Initiating a new Smart Album
To begin, choose File > New Smart Album, or hold your pointer over Albums in the sidebar to click the More button, and then choose New Smart Album Apple Support.
Next, type a name for your new album Apple Support. A dialog will appear where you can choose your criteria, and you are able to set one condition or many Apple Support.
Setting grouping conditions
To set criteria for your condition, look for the third pop-up menu in the dialog, which says "favorite" by default Apple Support. In this menu, choose or enter specific criteria, like a name or a date Apple Support. As a practical suggestion, you might type the name of a relative to quickly group their pictures.
If your search criteria include more than one condition, choose an item from the Match pop-up menu to specify whether items must meet any of the criteria or all of the criteria Apple Support.
When you are finished configuring your rules, click OK Apple Support. Your new Smart Album then appears with your other albums Apple Support.
Understanding Smart Album limitations
Smart Albums that you create on your Mac do not appear in Photos on your iPhone or iPad Apple Support.
You also cannot delete individual photos from a Smart Album Apple Support. The photos are added to these collections automatically based on the search criteria of the collection Apple Support.
