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According to "https://support.apple.com/guide/photos/find-photos-by-keyword-pht8d0ad5198/mac",
"You can type multiple words separated by a space to search for multiple keywords"
However on my MacBook Pro OSX v11.2.3, if i search for
brides brazil
I get no results. However if I search for "brides" or "brazil" separately, I get results under the "keywords" section
Is this a bug?
MacBook Pro
The section title "Keywords" is not always shown when I am searching for keywords in the current version of Photos 6.
I am seeing the separate titles for the search result only when searching for a single keyword, not when searching for more than one. The same goes for the categories or titles.
Testing with the keyword "Bird" and "Lighthouse":
Searching for "Lighthouse" or "Bird"separately I am seeing a structured search result with captions, titles, keywords, categories:
Searching for the two keywords combined, I am only getting the "Moments" and Photos", no further structure.
But I can easily filter this result further or filter any album or view with the "Showing" filter.
Setting "Showing only" to "Bird" and "Lighthouse will show the photos with both keywords:
The Filter is showing the keywords of the quick group in the Keywords Browser. I have added my most frequently used keywords to this Quick Group. The Filter is particularly powerful, when filtering a smart album. This way we can combine "Match Any" and "Match All" constraints.
The section title "Keywords" is not always shown when I am searching for keywords in the current version of Photos 6.
I am seeing the separate titles for the search result only when searching for a single keyword, not when searching for more than one. The same goes for the categories or titles.
Testing with the keyword "Bird" and "Lighthouse":
Searching for "Lighthouse" or "Bird"separately I am seeing a structured search result with captions, titles, keywords, categories:
Searching for the two keywords combined, I am only getting the "Moments" and Photos", no further structure.
But I can easily filter this result further or filter any album or view with the "Showing" filter.
Setting "Showing only" to "Bird" and "Lighthouse will show the photos with both keywords:
The Filter is showing the keywords of the quick group in the Keywords Browser. I have added my most frequently used keywords to this Quick Group. The Filter is particularly powerful, when filtering a smart album. This way we can combine "Match Any" and "Match All" constraints.
Yes - however, it is a specific test I've set up for this question. See screenshots. The first two are after double clicking the "keyword" section of the search. The last is all that comes up (no different search sections)
For example:
I have defined hierarchical keywords for countries and continents:
eg., Asia, Asia_Nepal, Asia_China, Europe, Europe_France, Europe_Germany.
A picture taken in France will have the keyword Europe_France, a picture taken Germany the keyword "Europe_Germany", but not the keyword "Europe"
When I set the filter to "Europe", Photos will show the photos with the keywords "Europe_France" and "Europe_Germany", even if the keyword "Europe" has not been applied.
The screenshot is showing, that the Filter is set to"Europe". No photo has this keyword, but the filter produces a photo with the keyword "Europe: France" and a photo with the keyword "Europe_Germany".
When I select both photos together, the Info and the Keyword Manager are showing, that "Europe: France" and "Europe_Germany" are set. It seems, with the Filter we can search for hierarchical keywords, if the keywords are starting with the less specific, joint category.
It's especially important to know because I'm about to add a bunch of keywords to several thousand new photos, and I can't tell if future searches will benefit most from using "brazil brides" or "brides" or "brazil" or "brides of brazil" as a keyword...
It seems to work for me in Catalina - I have some pictures with the key words robin and snow
Some others with just snow
Different combinations of snow - robin - snow robin
seem to give what I expect. At the moment, I don't have a Big Sur machine to check if this has been broken in big sur.
Thank you! Altho I shouldn't have click "solved" yet, I still have a question...
First, I complicated my test results by sometimes typing "brides" instead of "bride"... (!!!) Apologies! (the keyword is "bride")
Second, the other issue was caused by the library owner having applied the keyword "Brazil Bride" in addition to "Brazil" and "Bride". Having "Brazil Bride" as a used keyword resulted in a search for Brazil Bride ONLY finding photos with that 2-word keyword.
But I was able to get it to display: photos with both single-word keywords AS WELL AS photos with the 1 two-word keyword this by putting quotation marks around the desired keywords, OR reversing their order without quotation marks:
"Brazil" "Bride" OR Bride Brazil BUT NOT: Brazil Bride
Then it finds keywords with all 3 kinds of keywords ["Brazil" AND "Bride"] OR ["Brazil Bride"]
OR I could simply remove the keyword "Brazil Bride" from all photos.
So am I correct in assuming that the claim "You can type multiple words separated by a space to search for multiple keywords" ONLY if those multiple words do NOT form a phrase that's also being used as a multi-word keyword?
Also, If I can't know which combination of words a future user of this library will use in keyword searches, should I AVOID creating a combo-keyword ("Brazil Bride" or "Bride Brazil") as a keyword - Instead I should use "Bride" and "Brazil"?
Lastly, Is there a way to search for a UNION of keywords rather than an intersection?
Thx!
Sorry - that last question / request pertained to commands typed into the search box, or the "showing" filter. (I realize I should be able to do a UNION thru a smart album.)
(Also, took me a while to realize that the "showing" filter only works inside whatever album / folder is selected. But that's a great tool, thx!)
When I need a keyword consisting of two words, I am always writing them with an underscore instead of a space, for example "Brazil_Bride". It has the advantage, that the keywords will be correctly exported, when we export a photo with keywords. Otherwise the combined keyword may be exported as two keywords.
This used to work in the earlier versions of Photos, but in Photos 6 on Big Sur there is a problem with the filter, when I am using keywords of two words. It is still working in Smart Albums, but the filter will show results for the keyword "Brazil_Brides" as well, when I am filtering for the keyword "Brazil". I would have to write the keyword as "BrazilBrides" to avoid to have it recognised as "Brazil".
On the other hand, it comes in handy as a substitute for hierarchical keywords.
The search feature in Big Sur is lacking to say the least. The most accurate way to do what you want is to create a Smart Album like this:
It will be very accurate.
Having just upgraded to Big Sur, the keyword search still seems to work as I expect with two different keywords, indivdually, and their intersection.
Thank you both. I can use smart album as a work-around... But for me it only shows the intersection of the two keywords, but not the union.
FYI my OSX is ver 11.2.3 and Photos is ver 6.0 (330.0.150)
If you want to find any picture with either of the two keywords use "any" instead of "all" in the Smart Album.
TonyCollinet -- just to check -- when search for the two keywords and see both the intersection and union results, are you sure that you're seeing them within the KEYWORD section of search results?
Is searching for multiple keywords separated by a space in OSX Photos disabled?
