Your Photos library is likely full of years' worth of memories from vacations, gatherings, and events. You might have thousands, if not ten of thousands, of pictures and videos in your feed, and there's a new iOS feature that will help you remember exactly when and where a particular photo or video was taken—assuming you captured the moment during a live show or game. It's called "event recognition," and will ship with iOS 26 when Apple releases it later this month.

Here's how it works: Photos takes a look at the metadata for your photos and videos, or the information associated with that image, looking for details that may confirm whether it was taken at a major event. The app might use the date, time, location, and other data points to do this, and, once confirmed, it tags the photo or

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