Guides
Short, step-by-step help for everything in Family Trees, from your first photo to your first poster.
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Getting started: your first tree
Create your family, add yourself and your first photo.
Adding relatives with the quick-add wheel
Tap a person, then Parent, Partner, Child or Sibling.
Linking people by dragging
Connect two people who are already in your tree.
Complex families: step, adoptive and foster, several partners
Stepfamilies, adoption, fostering, remarriage and single parents.
Photos, voices and dates
Photos and tagging group photos
Add photos, choose portraits and tag everyone in a group shot.
Recording memories and transcripts
Record voices and stories with interview prompts.
Moments and reminders
Birthdays, anniversaries, remembrances and On This Day.
Widgets and Siri
Home Screen, Lock Screen, StandBy, Siri and Spotlight.
Seeing and sharing your tree
Your data
Importing and exporting GEDCOM
Bring a tree from Ancestry, FamilySearch or MyHeritage, or take yours anywhere.
Backups and restoring
Automatic backups to a folder you choose.
Finding duplicates
Merge people who were entered twice.
Undo and keyboard shortcuts
Undo any change, and the shortcuts for iPad and Mac.
Plans and the free trial
What’s free, what’s in Plus, and how the trial works.