Type filters directly into the search bar — people, tags, dates, locations, ratings, media type, favorites, and cameras — with live suggestions before you press Enter.
Gallery already had a deep filter panel. Inline Search Filters make that power available without leaving the keyboard
flow. You can type a normal search phrase and add structured filters right beside it:
beach person:anna tag:travel country:Germany from:2025.
Plain words stay the search query. Recognized tokens become filters. Enter commits everything together, so the page
either updates with the full search or keeps the palette open and shows what needs fixing.
What you can search for
Mix normal search words with typed filters in one query. For example:
skyscraper city:"New York City" from:2016 to:2026 person:Pierre.
person: or people:named people, including global people across accessible spaces
tag: or tags:asset tags such as travel, family, work, or nature
city: and country:places, with quotes for names like "New York City"
from: and to:years, months, or exact dates like 2026, 2026-05, or 2026-05-12
camera:camera makes or models found in your library
type:photo, image, or video
favorite:true, false, yes, no, 1, or 0
rating:ratings from 1 to 5
You can repeat person: and tag: to combine multiple people or tags. Plain words like
skyscraper or nature keep running as the normal search phrase.
Live suggestions while you type
People, tags, countries, and cities now show filter-specific suggestion rows while the cursor is inside the token.
Choosing a row rewrites only that token to the canonical value, such as person:"Anna Maria", and keeps
the rest of the query intact.
Suggestions apply filters; they do not navigate away. The normal search providers keep running from the plain query
text, so the palette remains useful while you refine the filter side.
Shareable URLs, visible chips, same filter panel
Committed filters serialize into readable URL parameters for Photos and Spaces. Refresh the page, use browser
history, or send the link to someone with access and Gallery can hydrate the same people, tag, date, location,
camera, favorite, rating, media-type, and album filters.
The active filter chips and filter panel stay in sync with the search bar. Removing a chip removes the matching URL
parameter; clearing filters leaves unrelated page state alone.
Scoped to where you started
Inline filters respect the searchable page you are on. Submit from Photos and Gallery searches the full accessible
timeline. Submit inside a Space and person suggestions, filters, and results stay scoped to that Space unless the
global view explicitly supports the wider timeline.
Location filters also got smarter: city search can look beyond the first capped list, keep selected cities visible,
and scope city suggestions to the selected country when that context exists.
More practical filters
The release adds a missing album-state filter too. You can now find assets with no album from the web filter flow,
and the same URL-driven search model keeps those active filters shareable where the page supports them.
This is a search bar for fast narrowing, not a separate query language. It uses Gallery's existing filters, existing
result pages, and existing permission checks, just with a shorter path from thought to result.
