On the History tab, click Scenes next to the title and open a recording showing the person. If it is a video, pause it and click a box. Boxes appear only at the tick marks on the progress bar; if No indexed people at this point is shown, move with Previous indexed point or Next indexed point.

Face and appearance results are grouped one tile per video with n clips shown; text and attribute results show a tile for each matching moment with n result(s).

• When face or appearance results are too many, type a condition into Narrow these results and press Enter, for example red jacket. Only the current results are filtered; each condition appears as a chip that Remove takes away, and Reset returns to the unnarrowed list.
• Remove an incorrect match from face or appearance results with the remove-person icon (Not this person) on its tile. Removed items collapse into Removed: n below the results, where Undo restores them. Several selected tiles can be removed at once from the toolbar.
• In text and attribute results, the eye-off icon (Hide) on a tile takes it away and n removed. Undo brings it back.
• When there are too many matches, only some are shown with Too many results to show. Narrow the period to see them all.
• The search row stays available while face or appearance results are shown. There, By text narrows the current results, and By attributes starts a new search.

Recordings with a person detected are indexed automatically in the background after saving. Recordings that are not indexed yet can still be opened and played, but do not appear in search results. When indexing falls behind, recent recordings may reach results later.

On the timeline (device software 1.29.3 or later), when the recording at the playhead is not indexed yet, Not indexed yet appears at the bottom left of the tile and that recording is striped in the first lane of the time bar. Earlier versions show no indexing indicator.

Results are empty when the recording was saved before face recognition was turned on (finding by face only), when the storage period has already deleted it, or when nothing stored matches.

For recent recordings (up to 72 hours), boxes appear on people and faces during playback too. For older recordings, and on device software below 1.29.3, boxes appear only while paused at the tick marks on the progress bar (the moments where Spot analyzed people).

How strictly two captures count as the same person is not adjusted per search. It is set in one place, Settings > Indexing > Person separation, and applies to finding by face or appearance and to the People cards (see Indexing Settings).

• Picking by box requires device software 1.29.1 or later.
• Narrow these results and the Not this person icon appear on 1.29.2 and later.
• The timeline, range download and delete, boxes during playback, the Not indexed yet indicator, and live boxes drawn by the app appear on 1.29.3 and later.
• Search by appears only when the device supports text and attribute search. While the search model is downloading, The search model is still downloading. Please try again shortly. is shown.

The buttons under Also cycle through states with each click. Unselected means not considered, one click means yes, a second click means no, and a third returns to the start. Each button displays its current state, e.g. "Hat", "With Hat", "Without Hat".

Because the no state exists, conditions such as "a person not wearing a hat" or "a person not carrying anything" can be constructed. Clear selection resets every choice.

The groups below are for clarity; on screen, all choices run in a single row.