Once you've a few dozen Tapes, scrolling stops being the fastest way to find one. Both the Tapes tab and the Collections tab have a search that filters as you type, and the Tapes tab has filters for where a Tape lives.
Searching
Go to the Tapes or Collections tab.
Tap the magnifying glass in the header.
The title makes way for a search field.
Start typing.
Results narrow with every letter. There's no button to press.
Tap the ✕ to clear, or Cancel to close search.
Filtering by where a Tape lives
- All
- Every Tape, yours and shared with you.
- On iPhone
- Tapes whose files are on this phone, so they play without a connection.
- Cloud
- Tapes stored only in Videflo Cloud, either removed from this phone or not yet downloaded on a new one.
- Shared
- Tapes with more than one person on them, whether you own them or joined them.
What search looks at
Names. Search matches the names you've given your Tapes and Collections, which is the strongest argument for naming them descriptively when you create them.
Videflo can't search inside the video. It doesn't listen to your recordings or analyse what's in the picture, and that's very much by design.
Tips
Search matches anywhere in a name, so typing “birth” finds “Emma's Birthday”.
Include the year in the name of anything annual. “Christmas 2026” is far easier to find in five years than “Christmas”.
Nothing found? Check whether you're searching the Tapes tab when the thing you want is a Collection.
Frequently asked
Can I search by date?
Not directly. Tapes are listed with the most recently filmed at the top, so recent things are always near the front, and putting a date in the name makes it searchable.
Can I search for words spoken in a recording?
No. Videflo never analyses or transcribes your footage. Searching covers the names you've written.
Related articles
Renaming, deleting, and tidying your Tapes
The Tape menu, what each action does, and which ones can't be undone.
Collections: grouping Tapes that belong together
Optional folders for your Tapes: how to make one, fill it, order it, and remove it.
Finding your way around
The four tabs, what lives on each one, the Together row, and where the settings are hiding.
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