Facebook Image Search: Find a Facebook Profile from an Image

Facebook Image Search is a technique to find a person’s profile with the help of Photo ID, Photo Search or Facebook Advanced Search.

With 1.62 billion visitors every day in 2020, Facebook has risen to the top of the list of social media platforms. Most of us use it to keep in touch with our family or friends. Facebook is so big that it can even help you find our lost friends with whom we no longer have contact. Great, isn’t it?

One more amazing thing about this social media platform is that more than 200 million photos are uploaded every day on this platform. And not only that, you can even search for someone on FB if you have a photo of the person or any related data. If you are wondering how is that possible, I have discussed some methods regarding the same later in this guide where it will be easy for you to search for a person on Facebook if you have their face photo.

What is Facebook Image Search?

Facebook image search involves a method used to search for a person on the social media platform using some methods such as photo ID, profile search, Facebook search or reverse Facebook image search. We have all used FB to find someone using their name, but this time you can do it with the help of an image and to filter the search results, you can even use the Advanced Search option. Features like image search or Google phone number search are useful when you want to know the identity of a person.

How does the image search feature work on Facebook?

Facebook considers the following three factors when performing image search:

Track Facebook photos based on account ID.
Image Search also considered the privacy settings of the user’s Facebook account.
It will only show the public photos of the account.

Therefore, the configuration of a user’s account is essential to perform image search on Facebook. Also, if the person has set the images to the ‘Friends of a Friend’ privacy setting, it will also be difficult to find the person by the image on Facebook unless you are connected to one of the person’s friends.

How to search a Facebook profile using an image?

If we talk generally, you can search for images by logging into your Facebook account and entering the relevant keyword in the search box; you will get all the related accounts in the search results. Or you can even add ‘ABC Photos’ for more refined results.

Another option is to go to Facebook.com/directory and search for images; use the available options to limit the search results.

Now let’s start with the methods for searching for photos on Facebook:

1. Use Facebook photos

If you have a photo that was taken from a Facebook account, you can follow the steps listed here:

Every image that is downloaded from Facebook has a file name; search for the file name and you will find ‘FB’ in it.
If you look carefully at the file name, you’ll see three sets of numbers separated by periods; you have to find the middle set of numbers. The middle set of numbers is the Facebook profile ID of the person you’re looking for.

Now, you need to type the URL in a web browser: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=xxxxxx. Instead of xxxx, you have to enter the profile ID that you have taken from the photo.
Press ‘Enter’ and you will be directed to the profile of the FB user in question if you are already logged into your account.

2. Reverse Image Search

Reverse image search is another useful method by which you can find the source of the photo i.e. the person it belongs to. Using this method, you can get similar images from the Internet.

Here is how to do it:

A. Search by image: Google

Google allows you to search the Facebook profile of the person by entering the ID of the photos in case you have downloaded the photo from Facebook.

Most of us use Google as our default search engine, so just open it and go to images.google.com.
Click on the image icon that says ‘Search by Image’ in the Google search bar

Also, you will be given two options: you can ‘Paste Image URL’ or you can ‘Upload an image’.

Once you’ve uploaded the image, Google results will show you all the pages that have matching images, including Facebook.

If you want more refined results, you can enter the keyword site:facebook.com in the search box and then you will see all the Facebook pages or profiles where the image was uploaded.

B.Bing Rev Image Search

Bing also offers a Google-like feature where you can search for a profile with the help of an image. You will need to upload the photo to the Bing engine and you will get all the related information and links.

To do this, go to https://www.bing.com/images/trending?FORM=ILPTRD and using the camera icon that says ‘Search by Image’, upload the photo. This is how you can find someone with a photo using the Bing search engine.

Images you upload will be automatically deleted and will not be visible to other users. You can even click a photo. With Bing, you get more controlled image search where you can reverse search any part of the image you’ve uploaded. Even the text written on the photo will also be copied and you will get clear categorized results.

3. Other methods

A.TinEye

Tineye is a popular option for a reverse image search for Facebook and you just have to upload the image or paste the URL to find the related images and the source of the photo.

B. The search is back

Search is Back is another tool that allows you to search for people with the help of certain information like city, marital status, school, name, events, posts and even allows you to find a person on Facebook using a photo.

That was all about how you can reverse image search on Facebook and find the person’s profile through their photo.

Last words

If you want to search someone on Facebook with the help of their photos, you can easily do it by using Google or Bing Search by Image feature and you will get all the links that have the photo and related information.