move circle over face in photos

thanks for your reply - I can't even seem to move the circle at all, can't drag it - can only use the x to delete it. I'm scared to uninstall and reinstall Photos as I have nearly 30K.

I've seen that happen occasionally. The only thing that helped in that case was to restart Photos. And once I even needed to restart the Mac to really restart Photos and to prevent it from resuming the cached processes. But restarting usually will make the "Add Face" tool work again and let me move and adjust the Faces circle.

I had the same problem, I'm running El capitan on MacBook Air. The only solution was to restart my computer.

It works fine for me when I click the plus-in-a-circle icon in the Photos info window to add a new circle; however, I must move the circle before typing anything in the name field -- that seems to lock the circle in place.

Same thing with unidentified faces that the app puts circles around on its own -- I can only delete them using the x on the edge of the circle, but not move them.

So just to be clear about it, you click on the plus in the Info window to add a face circle, & without typing anything you cannot click on the edge of (not inside) the circle & drag it around in the photo?

You're welcome 🙂

Quitting does not necessarily terminate an application completely, since the release of MacOS X 10.7 with the automatic termination and resume process model. Sometimes we need brute force and restart the Mac, see: http://arstechnica.com/apple/2011/07/mac-os-x-10-7/8/#process-model

Gosh, My Mac is like a 1990's Windows PC: "did you try rebooting?"

Photos is just the first release of a completely new designed application. I'm not surprised about the occasional bug in a first release of new software. Keep sending feedback to Apple with bug reports, and hopefully the next version of Photos to be released with MacOS X 10.11 in fall will fix this problem.

I too am having the issue where in a photo containing 2 very distinct faces, the face detect tool doesn't detect one of them. When I go to Get Info and add a face, it places the face bubble in the center of the photo and it is unable to be moved or resized in any way despite if the name is entered prior to or after. Restarting Photos and restarting OS X didn't change anything. This happens on multiple (but not all) photos.

Does anyone have any other suggestions?

My faces worked fine until today. Now I am unable to move the circle over the face.

Still working fine for me. Have you changed anything recently on your system?

And this is immediately after you have clicked on the plus icon in the Info window & a new circle appears in the photo, & then clicked on the edge of that circle?

Yes - everything was fine till yesterday, opened app this morning and could not move the circle.