People & Lovd Ones
People in lovd
There are two kinds of people in lovd:
Users
People with a lovd account. They can log in, view collections they're invited to, and add their own photos.
Lovd Ones
People without an account: grandparents, babies, relatives who've passed, friends who haven't joined, or even pets.
What Are Lovd Ones?
Lovd Ones represent anyone in your family tree who'll never create an account:
- Past generations. Grandparents, great-grandparents, and ancestors whose photos you're preserving.
- Little ones. Babies and young children too young for an account.
- People who've passed. Tag them to keep their memory alive. You can record a date passed so they're visually marked as remembered.
- People who haven't joined. Friends or family who may sign up later.
- Pets. Your dog, cat, or horse, connected to their humans through Relationships.
Only you, the person who created the Lovd One, can edit their profile, so relationships and tags stay consistent across collections.
Adding People
Open the People page and use Add person. It has three tabs:
Find on lovd
Search by handle to connect with an existing user.
Lovd Ones
Create a profile for someone not on the platform.
Invite to Lovd
Invite someone to join — by email or a shareable link — and optionally bundle them straight into a collection.
To create a Lovd One, open that tab and enter a first name (required); last name is optional. After creating, you can add a profile picture, birthday, date passed, and birthplace; see Life Events for each. The new Lovd One is ready to tag immediately.
Invite to Lovd
The Invite to Lovd tab brings someone new onto the platform two ways from one place:
- Pick where you're inviting them. Choose a collection to add them to as a member, or Connect directly for a platform invite with no collection access.
- Set your relationship. Optional when you're adding them to a collection; required when you connect directly (so the new account ends up linked to you).
- Send it. Either enter an email address for an email invite, or generate a shareable link to send however you like. Links carry the same collection and relationship, and you can revoke them any time.
Tagging People in Photos
You tag individual photos, not posts. A post shows as "tagged with" a person when any photo inside it carries that tag. Tagging works for both users and Lovd Ones.
Open a photo
Pick the photo you want to tag.
Choose "Tag people"
Find the tagging action on the photo.
Pick a scope, then select
The picker opens with tabs that mirror lovd's other people menus:
- Collection - people tagged in the photo's collection (shown when you're working inside one).
- Everyone - everyone across your people: the users you can see and your Lovd Ones.
- Search lovd. - search the whole platform by
@handleto find and tag any user, even someone you don't already share a collection with.
Start typing to filter, select the people you want, and the tag is saved.
Bulk tagging
When you have many photos of the same person:
- Select multiple photos in a collection.
- Use Tag people from the selection toolbar.
- Pick the people, and the tags apply to every selected photo.
Tag Suggestions
Anyone who can see a photo you don't own can suggest a tag rather than apply it directly, so the photo's owner has the final say.
- A suggested tag arrives as a pending suggestion for the owner to review.
- The owner can accept (the tag is saved) or reject (the suggestion is discarded).
- You can't suggest tagging a user who has Allow Tagging turned off; their privacy setting blocks it.
Review pending suggestions from your notifications.
Searching by Person
Once people are tagged, filter any collection by person:
- Open the filter panel in a collection.
- Select one or more people.
- See only the photos they appear in.
This is one of the fastest ways to rediscover memories: every photo of a specific person, across all your collections.
The People Page
The People page has two views, switched from the Graph / Grid toggle in the toolbar (icon tabs, next to Add person):
- Graph. A visual family tree of how everyone connects, with controls for orientation, spacing, and which connection lines to show. Ideal for exploring family structure. See Relationships.
- Grid. A masonry grid of everyone's cards. Each card shows the avatar, name, handle, shared-photo and shared-post counts, role badges, a compact relationship picker, and an actions menu for tagging, editing, and connecting. Use the Grouped / Ungrouped switch to split people into Family and Friends & others (pets count as family), or show them as one flat list. Pending invites appear inline with the list.
Search and Add person are available in both views. When a collection is selected, the page is scoped to the people tagged in that collection. Otherwise it shows everyone across your account.
Privacy Quick Reference
- Users you share with see your profile basics (name, handle, profile picture). Fields like birthday, birthplace, and email are only visible to people who share a collection with you.
- Lovd Ones you create are owned by you. Other users only see them when a Lovd One is tagged in a shared collection, and even then only the name, photo, and tagged photos, not the full profile.
- Allow Tagging in your Privacy Settings controls whether other users can tag you. Turning it off doesn't remove existing tags, but blocks new ones.
For deeper visibility rules, see Life Events → Privacy & Visibility.