How to find yourself in event photos: every way, compared

Updated November 9, 2026

A link with hundreds or thousands of photos from a wedding, a bar mitzvah, a trip or a conference. There are several ways to find the ones you're in, and each fits a different situation.

The short answer

If you got a link to a Google Drive folder, a Google Photos album or an iCloud shared album, the quickest free way is to search it by face: paste the link into That’s Me, take a selfie, and get only the photos you're in. If your photographer delivered the photos in a gallery that has its own face search, use that one.

1. Scrolling through the folder

Works with any link and needs nothing. At about a second a photo, 1,500 photos take half an hour, and in crowded dance-floor photos it's easy to miss yourself.

2. Asking the couple or the photographer

Sometimes the quickest for you, but now someone else is scrolling, and they get the same request from many guests.

3. Face groups in Google Photos or Apple Photos

Both group the faces in your own photos. In Google Photos, once face groups are on and you've labeled a face as you, search can also include shared albums you've joined, where the feature is available. A Google Drive folder isn't included, and in Apple Photos the photos have to be in your own library. If you already use one of them and the event is a shared album, try it first; it doesn't help guests who don't.

4. A gallery with face search

Some photographers deliver through paid gallery platforms with face search built in. If yours did, use it. It only works inside that gallery, and the photographer pays for it.

5. Guest photo apps

Apps where guests upload the photos from their own phones to one shared event album, and some of them sort by face. Everyone has to install the app or join, and they collect the guests' photos rather than the photographer's.

6. That’s Me

Built for the link you already have. Paste a Google Drive folder, a Google Photos album or an iCloud shared album, take a selfie, and get only the photos you're in, best ones first. You can look for up to four people at once, such as your children, and save everything to your phone in one go.

• Free, with no app and no sign-up, for guests, hosts and photographers.
• Private: the selfie is never stored, and copies of the photos are deleted within 24 hours.
• Limits: the folder must be shared with "anyone with the link"; up to 3,000 photos in a folder; the first search of a big folder takes a few minutes; faces that are mostly hidden or very small can be missed.

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