aycajr
Level 1
(0 points)
Q: Do I really need to face tag (Photos OS X) my 10k plus photos in both of my desktop and my laptop manually?
I have two computers. A Mac mini and a MacBook.
I started tagging my family photos on my MacBook then I thought: "Wait a minute, this is way too much work if I have to do this again", but then I thought: "No, Apple would never make me do something twice"... I waited for about a day (after tagging the faces on my Laptop) and went to my desktop. To my unfortunate surprise my photos that I spent a while tagging faces were not there....
Really? All that photo tagging does not transfer from computer to computer? I know it doesn't between a computer and an iOS device, but computers????
Sad.... or maybe I'm doing something wrong, hopefully.
Please help! Thanks in advance.
Mac mini (Late 2014), OS X Yosemite (10.10.3), Macbook Retina 2015
léonie
Level 10
(107,795 points)
Indeed, the face tagging does not sync to iCloud and between Macs. It is one of the exceptions.
See here, what will be synced: Use Photos and iCloud Photo Library on multiple Mac computers - Apple Support
And also: Tag faces in Photos to find people on all your devices - Apple Support
You should be able to search for the faces names on your second mac, since faces keywords do sync. That makes it easier to assign them on a second Mac - Photos will assign many faces automatically, if you just name a few.
