Tap Filters under the search box to narrow any search. Active filters show as chips you can remove one by one.
| Filter | What it keeps | How it is sent |
|---|---|---|
| Year | Photos taken in that year | fq={!term f=year v=$f_year} |
| Folder | Photos from that folder | fq={!term f=folder v=$f_folder} |
| Camera make | Photos taken with that brand of camera or phone | fq={!term f=camera_make v=$f_make} |
| Camera model | Photos taken with that camera model | fq={!term f=camera_model v=$f_camera} |
| City | Photos taken in that place | fq={!term f=city v=$f_city} |
| Region | Photos taken in that region, state or county | fq={!term f=region v=$f_region} |
| Country | Photos taken in that country | fq={!term f=country v=$f_country} |
| Orientation | Landscape, portrait or square | fq={!term f=orientation v=$f_orientation} |
| With location | Photos that carry GPS coordinates | fq=has_location:true |
| Within N km | Photos taken within a radius of a point (set from the map, or from a photo's Photos nearby) | fq={!geofilt sfield=location pt=$near_pt d=$near_d} |
The values offered come from facets of the current results, with a count next to each, so every choice has photos behind it. The chosen value itself travels as a separate bound parameter, never inside the query text. The city, region and country of a photo come from its GPS position, turned into words at indexing time (see sync).
When a radius filter is active, the filter sheet shows a Distance section with 0.5, 1, 5, 25 and 100 km, plus Anywhere to drop it.
Tap a photo and it opens in your gallery app — Google Photos, or the phone's own gallery — with read access granted for that one photo. Editing, sharing and deleting happen there, as always.
- If Android re-numbered the photo since it was indexed, the app finds it again by its path and opens it anyway.
- If the photo is no longer on the phone, the app says so; the next Re-Sync removes it from the index.
Press and hold a photo to open its details sheet:
When and with what
Date taken, camera, lens, aperture, shutter speed, ISO, focal length, pixel size and folder.
Where
The city and country when the photo has a position (the raw coordinates only until the place is known), with Show on map, which opens the map on that spot, and Photos nearby, which searches within 5 km of it.
What Opensolr sees
The words the photo was read into. These are what word search matches, and what its search vector was made from.
Open in gallery
The same as tapping the photo in the grid.
The tick icon at the top of the grid turns selection on: tap photos to tick them, then press Re-sync N photos. The chosen photos are read again by Opensolr at a sync that starts right away, regardless of what the phone's cache knows about them, so what changed in a picture is reflected in the words it is found by. Each one counts as new AI requests. Photos edited in place are noticed on their own, see sync; this is for when you want a photo read again anyway.