How to Quickly Find Screenshots in Google Photos

Jul. 23, 2024

Google Photos is one of the best gallery cum cloud photo storage apps that you can use to view and save your photos. Besides many useful features, the app sorts photos from all apps and sources into different libraries for easy access, and cleanly arranging them also helps declutter your gallery. One of the photo sources that it neatly arranges is device screenshots. In this article, let’s look at how to quickly find Screenshots on Google Photos.

Method 1: Find Screenshots From the Library Tab

You can quickly find screenshots in Google Photos in the Library section. There are two types of screenshots – on-device screenshots and the ones Google Photos automatically recognizes as screenshots regardless of the device it was taken from. Using the Library section, you can only find on-device screenshots on your phone.

If you want to find all the screenshots saved on Google Photos, regardless of if they were taken on your device or were backed up on another, you can use Google Photos’ search function.

On Phone

On PC

Google Photos’ search bar is one of the best ways to search for photos as it can not only help you search based on categories but also via the text in the photos. For example, if you had a screenshot with a particular word in it, but you can’t seem to find it now, you can search for that word and the Photos app will show you all the screenshots with that word. Do note that your screenshots need to be backed up for this feature to work.

Google Assistant can launch apps for you, and you can specify the feature you want to use in the app. Here’s how to quickly access screenshots by asking Google Assistant.

And those are some of the ways you can quickly access your screenshots using Google Photos. What are some of the Google Photos features you cannot live without? Let us know in the comments below.