System Settings
On the system settings page, the administrator can manage global settings for the Immich instance.
Viewing and modifying the system settings is restricted to the Administrator.
You can always return to the default settings by clicking the Reset to default button.
Job Settings
Using these settings, you can determine the amount of work that will run concurrently for each task in microservices. Some tasks can be set to higher values on computers with powerful hardware and storage with good I/O capabilities.
With higher concurrency, the host will work on more assets in parallel, this advice improves throughput, not latency, for example, it will make Smart Search jobs process more quickly, but it won't make searching faster.
It is important to remember that jobs like Smart Search, Face Detection, Facial Recognition, and Transcode Videos require a lot of processing power and therefore do not exaggerate the amount of jobs because you're probably thoroughly overloading the server.
The Facial Recognition Concurrency value cannot be changed because DBSCAN is traditionally sequential, but there are parallel implementations of it out there. Our implementation isn't parallel.
External Library
Library watching (EXPERIMENTAL)
External libraries can automatically import changed files without a full rescan. It will import the file whenever the operating system reports a file change. If your photos are mounted over the network, this does not work.
Periodic Scanning
You can define a custom interval for the trigger external library rescan under Administration -> Settings -> Library.
You can set the scanning interval using the preset or cron format. For more information please refer to e.g. Crontab Guru.
Logging
By default logs are set to record at the log level, the network administrator can choose a deeper or lower level of logs according to his decision or according to the needs required by the Immich support team.
Here you can learn about the different error levels.
Machine Learning Settings
Through this setting, you can manage all the settings related to machine learning in Immich, from the setting of remote machine learning to the model and its parameters You can choose to disable a certain type of machine learning, for example smart search or facial recognition.
Smart Search
The smart search settings are designed to allow the search tool to be used using CLIP models that can be changed, different models will necessarily give better results but may consume more processing power, when changing a model it is mandatory to re-run the Smart Search job on all images to fully apply the change.
Changing models requires a connection to the Internet to download the model. After downloading, there is no need for Immich to connect to the network Unless version checking has been enabled in the settings.
Facial Recognition
Under these settings, you can change the facial recognition settings Editable settings:
- Facial Recognition Model - Models are listed in descending order of size. Larger models are slower and use more memory, but produce better results. Note that you must re-run the Face Detection job for all images upon changing a model.
- Min Detection Score - Minimum confidence score for a face to be detected from 0-1. Lower values will detect more faces but may result in false positives.
- Max Recognition Distance - Maximum distance between two faces to be considered the same person, ranging from 0-2. Lowering this can prevent labeling two people as the same person, while raising it can prevent labeling the same person as two different people. Note that it is easier to merge two people than to split one person in two, so err on the side of a lower threshold when possible.
- Min Recognized Faces - The minimum number of recognized faces for a person to be created (AKA: Core face). Increasing this makes Facial Recognition more precise at the cost of increasing the chance that a face is not assigned to a person.
When changing the values in Min Detection Score, Max Recognition Distance, and Min Recognized Faces. You will have to restart only the job FACIAL RECOGNITION - ALL.
If you replace the Facial Recognition Model, you will have to run the job FACE DETECTION - ALL.
If you have twins, you might want to lower the Max Recognition Distance value, decreasing this a bit can make it distinguish between them.
Map & GPS Settings
Map Settings
In these settings, you can change the appearance of the map in night and day modes according to your personal preference and according to the supported options. The map can be adjusted via OpenMapTiles for example.
Reverse Geocoding Settings
Immich supports Reverse Geocoding using data from the GeoNames geographical database.
OAuth Authentication
Immich supports OAuth Authentication. Read more about this feature and its configuration here.
Password Authentication
The administrator can choose to disable login with username and password for the entire instance. This means that no one, including the system administrator, will be able to log using this method. If OAuth Authentication is also disabled, no users will be able to login using any method. Changing this setting does not affect existing sessions, just new login attempts.
You can always use the Server CLI to re-enable password login.
Server Settings
External Domain
When set, will override the domain name used when viewing and copying a shared link.
Welcome Message
The administrator can set a custom message on the login screen (the message will be displayed to all users).
Storage Template
Immich supports a custom Storage Template. Learn more about this feature and its configuration here.
Theme Settings
You can write custom CSS that will get loaded in the web application for all users. This enables administrators to change fonts, colors, and other styles.
For example:
p {
color: green;
}
Thumbnail Settings
By default Immich creates 3 thumbnails for each asset, Blurred (thumbhash) , Small (webp) , and Large (jpeg), using these settings you can change the quality for the thumbnail files that are created.
Small thumbnail resolution
Used when viewing groups of photos (main timeline, album view, etc.). Higher resolutions can preserve more detail but take longer to encode, have larger file sizes, and can reduce app responsiveness.
Large thumbnail resolution
Used when viewing a single photo and for machine learning. Higher resolutions can preserve more detail but take longer to encode, have larger file sizes, and can reduce app responsiveness.
Quality
Thumbnail quality from 1-100. Higher is better for quality but produces larger files.
Prefer wide gamut
Use display p3 for thumbnails. This better preserves the vibrance of images with wide color spaces, but images may appear differently on old devices with an old browser version. Srgb images are kept as srgb to avoid color shifts.
The default resolution for Large thumbnails can be lowered from 1440p (default) to 1080p or 720p to save storage space.
Trash Settings
In the system administrator's option to set a trash for deleted files, these files will remain in the trash until the deletion date 30 days (default) or as defined by the system administrator.
The trash can be disabled, however this is not recommended as future files that are deleted will be permanently deleted.
You can select assets and press Ctrl + Del from the timeline for quick permanent deletion without the trash option.
User Settings
Delete delay
The system administrator can choose to delete users through the administration panel, the system administrator can delete users immediately or alternatively delay the deletion for users (7 days by default) this action permanently delete a user's account and assets. The user deletion job runs at midnight to check for users that are ready for deletion. Changes to this setting will be evaluated at the next execution.
Version Check
When this option is enabled the immich-server will periodically make requests to GitHub to check for new releases.
Video Transcoding Settings
The system administrator can define parameters according to which video files will be converted to different formats (depending on the settings). The settings can be changed in depth, to learn more about the terminology used here, refer to FFmpeg documentation for H.264 codec, HEVC codec and VP9 codec.