How does Pluto Photos find trips and events?

It looks at the dates and places of your photos and shows a home base, then lists suggested trips (with a place and distance from home) and events as albums you can create.

Can I turn them all into albums at once?

Yes. Create all trips at the top of the dialog makes an album for every trip in the list.

Smart Features Beginner 3 min read Updated Oct 23, 2026 Pluto Photos 2.5.2

How to Turn Your Trips and Events Into Albums Automatically

Short answer

Open Places, then Trips. Pluto Photos lists trips and events it found from your photo dates and places. Click Create album on one, or Create all trips. The album appears in the sidebar under Trips.

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#1. Open Trips & Events

Open the Places menu and choose Trips. The list says Found 12 suggested album(s) from your photos' dates and places and names your home base. Each suggestion is either a Trip (with its dates, photo count, number of days, place and distance from home, such as Trip to Cape Town, 7 photos, 4 days) or an Event (a date with its photo count). The tabs All, Trips and Events filter the list, and you can search it and change the order from Most recent.

The Trips and Events dialog listing suggested trips and events with dates, photo counts and Create album buttons — Suggested trips and events.

#2. Create an album

Click Create album on one suggestion. The button changes to Created and the album is added to your library. Create all 9 trips at the top does every trip in one go.

The Trips and Events dialog with the first event marked Created and Create album still showing on the others — The first suggestion is now an album.

#3. Find the album in the sidebar

Albums made this way are listed under Trips in the sidebar, named for their dates (Oct 23, 2026, 13 photos). Click one to open it.

#Tips

It uses your photos' dates and places, so the more of your photos carry GPS data, the better the trips.
Place names come from the internet in the same way as the map, with coordinates sent to OpenStreetMap's Nominatim service.
Nothing becomes an album until you click Create album, so you can pick just the ones you want.

#Questions

How does Pluto Photos find trips and events?: It looks at the dates and places of your photos and shows a home base, then lists suggested trips (with a place and distance from home) and events as albums you can create.
Can I turn them all into albums at once?: Yes. Create all trips at the top of the dialog makes an album for every trip in the list.

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