People & Lovd Ones
People in lovd
Everyone who appears in your photos deserves to be remembered. In lovd, there are two types of people:
Users
People who have a lovd account and can log in, view collections, and add their own photos.
Lovd Ones
People who don't have an account — grandparents, babies, relatives who've passed, or friends who haven't joined yet.
What Are Lovd Ones?
Lovd Ones let you represent anyone in your family tree, even if they'll never create an account. They're perfect for:
- Past generations — Grandparents, great-grandparents, and ancestors whose photos you're preserving.
- Little ones — Babies and young children who can't hold a phone yet.
- People who've passed — Keep their memory alive by tagging them in photos. You can also record a date passed so they're visually marked as remembered.
- People who haven't joined — Friends or family who may join lovd later.
- Pets — Your dog, cat, or horse can be a Lovd One, and connected to their humans through Relationships.
Creating a Lovd One
Open the People section
Navigate to the People page from the sidebar.
Tap "Add Lovd One"
Enter their first name (required) and optionally their last name.
Add optional details
Add a profile picture, birthday, date passed, and birthplace. See Life Events for details on each.
Save
They're added to your Lovd Ones list and ready to be tagged.
Only you — the person who created the Lovd One — can edit their profile, so relationships and tagging stay consistent across collections.
Tagging People in Photos
When you upload photos or edit a post, you can tag people who appear in them. This works for both users and Lovd Ones.
Open a post or photo
Pick the photo you want to tag.
Tap "Tag People"
Look for the tagging option in the photo toolbar.
Search for the person
Start typing their name; both users and Lovd Ones you can see will appear.
Select them
That's it — the tag is saved.
A post is "tagged with" a person when any of its photos have that tag. You don't tag the post itself — you tag individual photos inside it.
Bulk tagging
When you have many photos of the same person, the bulk tag tool saves time:
- Select multiple photos in a collection
- Use the Tag people action from the selection toolbar
- Pick the people — they're applied to every selected photo
Tag Suggestions
Other people can suggest tags in your photos without applying them directly — you get the final say.
- When someone tags a person in a photo you own, it arrives as a suggestion on the photo.
- You can accept (the tag is saved) or reject (the suggestion is discarded).
- If the suggestion involves another user who has Allow Tagging turned off, the suggestion can't be made — their privacy setting wins.
Review pending suggestions from the notifications area or directly on the photo.
Searching by Person
Once you've tagged people in your photos, you can 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 most powerful ways to rediscover memories — find every photo of a specific person across all your collections.
The People Page
The People page has two views:
List
Every person you can see, with shared-photo counts, relationship badges, and quick access to tagging and editing.
Graph
A visual tree of how everyone connects — ideal for exploring family structure. See Relationships.
When a collection is selected in the sidebar, 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 can 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 if a Lovd One is tagged in a shared collection, and even then they can only see name, photo, and tagged photos — not the full profile.
- Allow Tagging in your Privacy Settings controls whether other users can tag you at all. If you disable it, existing tags aren't removed, but no new ones can be added.
For deeper visibility rules, see Life Events → Privacy & Visibility.