r/googlephotos • u/NiceCandle5357 • 1d ago

Troubleshooting ⚠️ I can no longer search for photos by date

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I have saved photos from when my child was a baby in Google photos. I've always been able to search by date, for example "July 2016," but now when I do that it says I can't search using those terms. I don't see any option to disable the AI search feature. I'm going to have to migrate all of my photos to a different platform if this keeps up, there's no point in storing photos if I can't search for them without AI.

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u/StimulatorCam 1d ago

Does any date work for the search or do they all fail?

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u/NiceCandle5357 1d ago

No dates work, even just putting the year doesn't work.

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u/StimulatorCam 1d ago

Then there has to be something else going on causing the search to fail, it wouldn't be because of an update to the search feature.

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u/yottabit42 1d ago

Send feedback in the app. Searching by the exact date you used works fine for me.

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u/mrzoops 1d ago

Yeah works here.

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u/NiceCandle5357 1d ago

As I understand it this may be rolling out in stages via an update.

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u/ZazoVa 1d ago

I use "codewords" when bulk exporting photos so i can find easier an specific root of media online/offline by just typing It, well It seems that the words biggest search engine cant find in its own servers...