How To Search Facebook Photos By Year?

Today, I thought it would be fun to have a look at some old images that I had uploaded to Facebook in 2014. Even though I only remembered the year and not the specific day, I still spent up to an hour attempting to figure out how to search for images on Facebook according to the year or date. And if you are experiencing the same issue, I am here to provide you with step-by-step instructions on how to fix it.

It seems that there is no ability to view just your images on Facebook, sort them by year, or search for them based on year or date. This is a disappointing lack of functionality. This is something that everyone wants, yet for some reason there is still no straightforward approach of accomplishing this goal.

You do, however, have the ability to cut down on the amount of scrolling that is required, and you can do this by taking control of your timeline. In this post, I will walk you through the steps that you need to take in order to locate a photo that you have uploaded to Facebook in the past as quickly as possible.

As long as you are aware of the year in which the photographs were first made available to the public, you will have the ability to hone down on your search, which will make your life a great deal simpler.

I will explain how to search your images on Facebook by year or date, which is the only option to do it at this time. The procedure as a whole is not too complicated once you have the information necessary to complete it.

• Take note that you may only use this on a desktop computer or a laptop (so not on the mobile phone app). It is possible that it will function if you attempt to log in to your Facebook account using a browser on your mobile device; nevertheless, it is a great deal simpler on a personal computer or laptop.
• You can access your Timeline on Facebook by logging into your account and clicking on your name in the top left corner of the screen.
• There is a bar with multiple tabs just beneath your name in this section. Place your cursor over the “Timeline” tab and click the “Grid view” drop-down menu that appears:

• Now take a look at the left sidebar; there should be a new menu somewhere in that area, and a button that you may click should be located under the category labelled “Date posted.” Simply use the link provided, as seen below:

• At this point, all that is left for you to do is choose the year in which you are certain that you published the picture, and then go down through your timeline until you locate the specific post you are looking for. Because you can see thumbnails of each one, navigating through them is quite simple and straightforward.

What if you have a ton of things posted on your timeline, by both yourself and your friends?

You may still refine your search by adding a few more specifics, which will make it much simpler to zero in on the information you need. This is what you should do:

• After completing all of the steps above, you should be able to view all of the posts on your timeline that were published on a certain day after you log in to your Facebook account and go to your timeline.
• You have a couple additional choices, which are located in the sidebar to the left, just above the section where you picked the year, and they are as follows:

You have the option of seeing posts on your timeline that were either published by yourself just, all posts, or all posts that were published on your timeline. This is seen in the picture that is located above. Additionally, you have the option to see just those posts in which you have been tagged. These are all helpful choices that make it a little bit simpler to search for a certain picture or link that you have posted in the past.

This is the method for searching your images on Facebook according to the date. It is not the simplest technique, particularly if you use to share a lot of stuff on your timeline, but at least it is easier than having to randomly browse down through years of images until you locate the one you are searching for, and it is the only one that currently exists.

It took me longer to find out how to do it, but in your case, because you’re reading this, you are already ahead of the game and will get there sooner rather than later. In my experience, it completed the task in a reasonable amount of time; however, it took me longer to figure out how to do it.

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