A screenshot is the hardest thing on your phone to find later. It has no title, no author, and no date you'd remember — and the camera roll only sorts by the one thing you've forgotten. Share screenshots into Fav and each one gets read, described and tagged, so you can look for what was in it instead of scrolling back through months of everything else.
Nobody remembers the filename or the day. They remember the thing: the recipe with brown butter, the settings screen someone told them to change, the shop with the blue door. Describe it in your own words and Fav matches on meaning — the extracted text and the description are both part of what it searches.
Album-based tidying fails for the same reason it always has: it asks for work at the moment you are busiest, and the screenshots that never get filed are exactly the ones taken in a hurry. Fav files them after you've moved on, and there is nothing to maintain when you don't.
Sharing a screenshot into Fav copies it into your library. It doesn't move, delete or reorganise anything in Photos, and a saved copy keeps working if you later clear the original off your phone.
Saving, AI analysis, and search are free, with 5 GB of media storage and a daily allowance of AI credits. Plus (50 GB) is $2.99/month and Pro (150 GB) is $6.99/month, each with a monthly credit grant. No ads.
Yes. Readable text in the image is extracted and becomes part of what search matches, which is what makes a screenshot of a recipe, a receipt or an error message findable at all.
No. The title, summary and tags are written for you. You can edit any of them, but nothing breaks if you never do.
No. Fav keeps its own copy and leaves your camera roll untouched.
Yes — photos, links, and posts shared from other apps all land in the same library and are searched together.
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