Four Ways to Search

Method	Usage	Requirements
Find by face	Open a recording, pause the video (a photo needs no pause), click a face box, then click Find by face. Other recordings of the same person are found; name registration is not required.	Face recognition on
Find by appearance	Click a person box, then Find by appearance. Matches the whole look (clothing, build, and carried items) and works from angles where the face is not visible.	None
By text	With Search by set to By text, type a phrase such as `red coat` in the search row and press Enter.	None
By attributes	Set Search by to By attributes and click Attributes. Combine Top color and Bottom color, Age, Bag, Facing, and the items under Also, then click Search.	None

Note In videos, boxes appear on people and faces only at indexed points. Picking by box requires device software 1.29.1 or 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.

Working with results

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). Clicking a tile plays that video from the matching moment. Back above the results returns to the list.

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 Not this person. 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, Hide takes a tile 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.
On a phone, the search tools are folded away in results; Show search tools unfolds them.

Note 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. Narrow these results and Not this person appear on device software 1.29.2 and later.

Attributes choices and the three-state buttons

Item	Choices
Top color · Bottom color	Pick one or more color swatches.
Age	Under 18 · 18–60 · Over 60
Bag	None · Handbag · Shoulder bag · Backpack
Facing	Front · Side · Back

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.

Group	Choices
Person	Male · Long hair · Glasses · Hat
Top	Long sleeves · Striped top · Logo top · Plaid top · Colour-block top
Bottom	Trousers · Shorts · Skirt / dress · Long coat · Striped bottom · Patterned bottom
Other	Boots · Holding object

Caution Search covers only indexed recordings. New recordings are indexed in the background after saving, so when indexing falls behind, recent recordings may reach results later. Results are empty when the recording was saved before face recognition was enabled (finding by face only), when the storage period has already deleted it, or when nothing stored matches.