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iPad User Guide

Find receipts, QR codes, recently edited photos, and more on iPad

In the Photos app, you can find collections of photos and videos organized into different categories in Utilities. For example, you can revisit photos you recently edited, saved, viewed, or shared, or find photos based on their content—like documents, receipts, handwriting, illustrations, and QR codes.

Find receipts, QR codes, and more in Utilities

  1. Go to the Photos app 👁 Image
    on your iPad.

  2. Tap Collections, scroll down, then tap Utilities.

  3. Tap the collection you want to view.

    Note: Some Utilities collections, like Hidden and Recently Deleted, are locked by default for your privacy. See Lock and unlock the Recently Deleted and Hidden collections.

Reorder the Utilities list

You can reorder the Utilities list to help you find the collections you access most often.

  1. Go to the Photos app 👁 Image
    on your iPad.

  2. Tap Collections, then tap Edit at the top of the screen.

  3. Touch and hold the collection you want to reorder, then drag it to a new position.

  4. When you’re done, tap the checkmark at the top of the screen.

Find recovered items and save or delete them

If a photo or video wasn’t saved properly and couldn’t be added to your library, you may find a copy of it in Recovered.

  1. Go to the Photos app 👁 Image
    on your iPad.

  2. Tap Collections, scroll down, then tap Utilities.

  3. Tap Recovered, then tap the photo or video you want to recover.

  4. Tap Permanently Delete or Restore to Library.

    Important: When you delete a recovered photo or video, it’s deleted permanently. You can’t recover photos that you deleted from the Recovered collection in Utilities.

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