Immich 3.3 brings people sharing, bithday memories, new OCR models and synced OAuth claims

Photo management platform Immich has released version 3.3, introducing several workflow-focused improvements aimed at making personal photo libraries more collaborative and intelligent. The headline addition is person-sharing capabilities within cluster groups, allowing users to share face recognition data with others. Shared persons now appear in both users' contact lists across mobile and web interfaces, with editable name and birthdate fields that sync across the group by default, a notable step toward multi-user photo organization. Complementing this social feature are birthday memories, which surface past photos of friends and family members on their anniversaries, adding a more personalized touch to the experience.

On the technical front, Immich 3.3 delivers substantial machine learning optimizations. Backend processing is now significantly faster with reduced memory consumption across all inference options, including CPU-based systems. Users relying on external photo editors will also benefit from improved timeline organization, as edits made outside Immich now stack cleanly over originals rather than fragmenting the view. The release further upgrades optical character recognition to the PP-OCRv6 family, delivering multilingual text detection with notably higher accuracy than its predecessor, alongside improved image resampling that better preserves detail and brightness in high-contrast scenes.

Administrative controls received attention too, with OAuth claims now syncing on every login rather than just during registration. Storage quota, user roles, and preferred usernames can thus be updated dynamically through identity providers, enabling active user management without manual intervention. The patch also corrects storage usage calculations that previously showed inaccuracies in certain environments like Docker on macOS. While no major architectural overhaul was promised, the combination of performance gains, smarter automation, and collaborative features positions 3.3 as a meaningful update for both casual users and power administrators managing large media collections.