BJ4Rock

Q: Photos, Smart album to find photos with unknown faces?

I try to systematically name faces I want to name or delete those I don't want. In iPhoto, I've had a smart album with the criterion that Face is unnamed, showing me all photos where there faces I have not named.

 

In Photos, the option to select "unnamed" when choosing Face is does not exist. I've not been able to find any workarounds to create a smart album that achieves the same.

 

Anyone with ideas how this can be done?

Posted on Apr 15, 2015 3:57 AM

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  • by iAmRenzo,

    iAmRenzo iAmRenzo May 14, 2015 1:44 AM in response to BJ4Rock
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    May 14, 2015 1:44 AM in response to BJ4Rock

    I do have this question. I tried to add a rule "Face is unkown" but Apple presents a tiny menu with all faces randomly sorted... why is this Apple? You make it very difficult these days.

    Leaving the rule "is not" or "is" empty doesn't show the unnamed faces.

  • by Old Toad,

    Old Toad Old Toad May 14, 2015 9:50 AM in response to BJ4Rock
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    May 14, 2015 9:50 AM in response to BJ4Rock

    There is no easy workaround except to add every known face as "is not". 

     

    Another feature left out of Photos.  Be sure to tell Apple what missing features you'd like restored in Photos via https://www.apple.com/feedback/photos.html

     

    Here's a comparison of the two apps:

     

    Photos 1.5 vs iPhoto 9.6.1:  Features and Capabilities

    OTsig.png

  • by QwertyMan11,

    QwertyMan11 QwertyMan11 May 15, 2015 8:37 AM in response to Old Toad
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    May 15, 2015 8:37 AM in response to Old Toad

    As said another feature missing again from Photos, a simple one, or forgotten one to me (yes I've fed back to Apple), also the workaround of "is not.., is not.., is no good as only allows 12 rules, I have more than 12 faces...

  • by Old Toad,

    Old Toad Old Toad May 15, 2015 9:49 AM in response to QwertyMan11
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    May 15, 2015 9:49 AM in response to QwertyMan11

    Keep bugging Apple to add those iPhoto features that make iPhoto so valuable back into Photos. 

  • by iAmRenzo,

    iAmRenzo iAmRenzo May 17, 2015 10:28 PM in response to Old Toad
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    May 17, 2015 10:28 PM in response to Old Toad

    I guess that is the only way.

    While my entire database (100 GB) is now almost online I see so much 'features' I don't like or miss. I think I am going back to iPhoto and wait until Apple releases 2.0. Which is for Apple nowadays the more stable and feature rich(er) version of it all...

  • by MojoBaer,

    MojoBaer MojoBaer May 28, 2015 6:30 AM in response to BJ4Rock
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    May 28, 2015 6:30 AM in response to BJ4Rock

    Here's a workaround:

    Go to Faces and select all the face icons.

    Then bring up info.

    Add a keyword 'FaceID' to all the photos that have faces

    Then you can create a smart album where FaceID is not a keyword.

  • by QwertyMan11,

    QwertyMan11 QwertyMan11 May 28, 2015 12:40 PM in response to MojoBaer
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    May 28, 2015 12:40 PM in response to MojoBaer

    MojoBaer wrote:

     

    Here's a workaround:

    Go to Faces and select all the face icons.

    Then bring up info.

    Add a keyword 'FaceID' to all the photos that have faces

    Then you can create a smart album where FaceID is not a keyword.

    Sorry what does this do exactly? I've done what you suggested, but I have photos in that part album, of for example, my car, photos with no faces (not un-named faces) etc in?

     

    thanks

  • by Disney-makes-me-Happy,

    Disney-makes-me-Happy Disney-makes-me-Happy Aug 15, 2015 4:19 AM in response to MojoBaer
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    Aug 15, 2015 4:19 AM in response to MojoBaer

    This leaves out all the photos in which one face is recognized and another isn't...

  • by Disney-makes-me-Happy,

    Disney-makes-me-Happy Disney-makes-me-Happy Aug 15, 2015 4:25 AM in response to QwertyMan11
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    Aug 15, 2015 4:25 AM in response to QwertyMan11

    I did try this thing with Smart Album and a couple of rules "face = [NAME]" ('cause I have less then 12 faces...), but it doesn't work anyway. It does make a selection of all photos that don't have my faces in it, but not just the ones with a "no name"-face. Adding a rule with "face = [EMPTY]" doesn't cut it and adding a rule "face = no name" doesn't cut it either...

     

    Hope someone has the one and only solution to this once so simple question in iPhoto...!

  • by Jon-Eric Eliker,

    Jon-Eric Eliker Jon-Eric Eliker Sep 11, 2015 1:48 PM in response to BJ4Rock
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    Sep 11, 2015 1:48 PM in response to BJ4Rock

    I accomplished this with Smart Album and criteria "Face is not %"  Since this is SQL the % works as a wildcard.

     

    I don't think this will tell me photos that do not have a detected face—just the photos with a detected face that has not been named.

     

    Jon-Eric

  • by Disney-makes-me-Happy,

    Disney-makes-me-Happy Disney-makes-me-Happy Sep 17, 2015 4:16 AM in response to Jon-Eric Eliker
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    Sep 17, 2015 4:16 AM in response to Jon-Eric Eliker

    I did try this one. But unfortunately it didn't seem to work. I got all my photo's listed. Not just the ones with a no-named face. The ones with a named-face were out of the list, but otherwise all my photos were in it. Also the ones who don't even have a detected face...

  • by QwertyMan11,

    QwertyMan11 QwertyMan11 Dec 5, 2015 5:26 AM in response to Disney-makes-me-Happy
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    Dec 5, 2015 5:26 AM in response to Disney-makes-me-Happy

    Has this been "fixed" yet, or any better workarounds? I email Apple every version release so far.

  • by ckubek,

    ckubek ckubek Jan 23, 2016 2:35 PM in response to QwertyMan11
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    Jan 23, 2016 2:35 PM in response to QwertyMan11

    It's not a fix but I have been trying to go through my entire library trying to find all of the photos that have detected, but unnamed faces. I just realized if I select all of the detected but unnamed faces and assign them a random, unused name, it will group them all as one person in faces and then it's easier to go through the photos and either appropriately name people or remove the erronous detection.

     

    The ability for smart albums to find detected but unnamed faces would be ideal. It's ridiculous it's not a feature.

  • by m.ehinger,

    m.ehinger m.ehinger Feb 14, 2016 3:53 AM in response to BJ4Rock
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    Feb 14, 2016 3:53 AM in response to BJ4Rock

    Here is a workaround, that actually worked pretty well for me:

    1. In Photos, go to Album > Faces
    2. In the lower part of the window, click to select one of the suggested faces
    3. Press cmd-a on your keyboard to select all faces
    4. Press Enter on your keyboard to enter a name.
    5. Enter the name "Unknown" in the diaglogue, and press enter (or the "Continue" button).
    6. If Photos finds faces similar to those you just added, click the button "Add and Continue".

    You may have to repeat this several times before all your unkown faces have been named "Unknown".

    Since all your unknown faces will now have the name "Unknown", you can go through them one by one, giving the right name to each person and remove any unwanted faces. As you do this, the faces will be automagically removed from the group "Unknown" and added to the correct person instead.

     

    Hope this helps!

     

      /Magnus Ehinger

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