
Create Smart Albums to group photos and videos automatically on Mac
A Smart Album automatically gathers and displays photos and videos in your library that meet criteria you specify. For example, you can create a Smart Album that automatically collects your favorite Portrait mode photos.
Note: Smart Albums that you create on your Mac don’t appear in Photos on your iPhone or iPad.
Create a Smart Album
- Go to the Photos app  on your Mac. on your Mac.
- Choose File > New Smart Album. 
- Choose your criteria in the dialog that appears. - You can set one condition or many.  - Choose a category for the condition: Click the first pop-up menu, then choose a category. For example, choose Photo to search for photos of a certain kind. Or choose Title or Date to find photos with a specific title or that were taken on a specific date. 
- Choose a relationship (or operator): Click the second pop-up menu and choose an item. For example, you can specify that a photo “is” or “is not” a selfie or video. Each category has its own modifiers that you can choose. 
- Set criteria for the condition: In the third pop-up menu, choose or enter specific criteria, like a name or date. For example, choose “favorite” to search for photos you’ve marked as favorites. 
- Add or remove a condition: Click  or or . .
- Specify whether items must meet any of the criteria or all of the criteria: If your search criteria include more than one condition, choose an item from the Match pop-up menu. To include items that match any one of the conditions, choose “any.” To include only items that match all of the conditions, choose “all.” 
 
- Click OK. - Your new Smart Album appears with your other albums. 
Change the criteria for a Smart Album
- Go to the Photos app  on your Mac. on your Mac.
- Click Albums in the sidebar, then click a Smart Album to select it. 
- Choose File > Edit Smart Album. 
- Make your changes, then click OK.