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title: Advanced search
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On device machine learning in Ente for face and natural language search
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# Advanced search
> [!NOTE]
>
> This document describes a beta feature that will be present in an upcoming
> release.
Ente supports on device machine learning. This allows you to use the latest
Ente supports on-device machine learning. This allows you to use the latest
advances in AI in a privacy preserving manner.
* You can search for your photos by the **faces** of the people in them. Ente
- You can search for your photos by the **faces** of the people in them. Ente
will show you all the faces in a photo, and will also try to group similar
faces together to create clusters of people so that you can give them names,
and quickly find all photos with a given person in them.
* You can search for your photos by typing natural language descriptions of
them. For example, you can search for "night", "by the seaside", "the red
motorcycle next to a fountain", etc. Within the app, this ability is
sometimes referred to as **magic search**.
- You can search for your photos by typing natural language descriptions of
them. For example, you can search for "night", "by the seaside", or "the red
motorcycle next to a fountain". Within the app, this ability is sometimes
referred to as **magic search**.
* We will build on this foundation to add more forms of advanced search.
- We will build on this foundation to add more forms of advanced search.
You can enable face and magic search in the app's preferences on either the
mobile app or the desktop app.
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> Even for the initial indexing, you don't necessarily need the desktop app, it
> just will be a bit faster.
> Even for the initial indexing, you don't necessarily need the desktop app, it
> just will be a bit faster.
The indexes are synced across all your devices automatically using the same end-to-end encypted security that we use for syncing your photos.
The indexes are synced across all your devices automatically using the same
end-to-end encypted security that we use for syncing your photos.
Note that the desktop app does not currently support modifying the automatically
generated face groupings, that is only supported by the mobile app.