Jenni Kapanen asks:
Can I search for photos taken with iPhone in my Photos library? I’ve got over 13,000 photos that I’ve tried to keep organized and export them to an external drive so that I can vacate space on my hard drive, but want to keep the low-quality iPhone photos separate.Yes, you’re in luck! I feel like the Smart Album feature in Photos (as in iPhoto) has a lot of overlooked power. Here’s a great case.
Start by choosing File > New Smart Album. Now you can select criteria. While there are some elements missing from iPhoto in Photos for OS X (notably related to whether any face has been set in a picture), you can still create complicated chained or independent queries.
Let’s say I want an album that only contains photos (not videos) taken by any iPhone model. In the New Smart Album dialog, I’d choose All from the Match menu as I have two criteria. My first is Camera Model set to Starts With and then iPhone. (I could also select “is” and pick specific iPhone models in the list.)
Then I’d click the + to add another criterion, and choose Photo, set matching to Is Not, and choose Movie from the category pop-up menu. Click OK, and now I can see only images taken by any iPhone I’ve ever owned.