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Q: smart album and faces

I have recently started using Photos app. I imported many photos and tagged almost all the faces that appeared and built a pretty decent faces library.

However when I try to create a smart album with faces criteria it doesnt work. Either when I choose "is" or "contains" a name of face, either if I pick the name from the available ones or I type it, either if I choose one or many faces the album does not show anything. Using other criteria (such as camera model, favorited photos or keywords) gives results. Faces gives nothing. I would like to use this feature very much and not just static albums.

Any ideas ?

 

Thank you

Posted on Sep 11, 2015 1:17 PM

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  • by léonie,Solvedanswer

    léonie léonie Sep 11, 2015 1:42 PM in response to cghera
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    Sep 11, 2015 1:42 PM in response to cghera
    Using other criteria (such as camera model, favorited photos or keywords) gives results. Faces gives nothing.

    Try "Text includes " instead of Face includes.  The text search will find the faces tags.

     

    The smart album constraints for faces do still seem to be buggy.

  • by cghera,

    cghera cghera Sep 11, 2015 1:34 PM in response to léonie
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    Sep 11, 2015 1:34 PM in response to léonie

    Thank you very much.

    The text criteria did the trick. I would never thought. I hope the faces work in the future, very unApple feature...

  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie Sep 11, 2015 1:37 PM in response to cghera
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    Sep 11, 2015 1:37 PM in response to cghera

    You're welcome.

  • by aburigo,

    aburigo aburigo Oct 15, 2015 3:48 PM in response to cghera
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    Oct 15, 2015 3:48 PM in response to cghera

    It did not work for me. I have all of my 10,000 photos tagged with the faces and when I tried to create an album with the criteria of only 2 faces (me and my girlfriend) it shows only 81 photos and I have a lot more photos with my gf than 81. "Text" and "Faces" gives me the same result. I would like to have a Smart Album with us two and nobody else. I think this is a bug... Any ideas?

     

    Thanks!

  • by LarryHN,

    LarryHN LarryHN Oct 15, 2015 4:00 PM in response to aburigo
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    Oct 15, 2015 4:00 PM in response to aburigo

    there is no way to build a smart album that includes all photos of two people with no one else involved - you should be able to get all photos where both of you are included but that does not work right for me

     

    But there is no provision for a set of rules where it only contains two people

     

    LN

  • by aburigo,

    aburigo aburigo Oct 15, 2015 6:24 PM in response to LarryHN
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    Oct 15, 2015 6:24 PM in response to LarryHN

    That's the problem, when I created the album not all of mine and her photos goes to the folder, only a few that I don't know why. Last week I could see all of our photos and what I did was to "not include" a few names that was with us in the photos and it works fine. But now I don't know why only a few photos appears... it is a strange bug. This smart albums/playlist are buggy I think.

  • by LarryHN,

    LarryHN LarryHN Oct 15, 2015 6:43 PM in response to aburigo
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    Oct 15, 2015 6:43 PM in response to aburigo

    It seems that was to me - report to Apple http://www.apple.com/feedback/photos.html

     

    LN

  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie Oct 15, 2015 11:13 PM in response to aburigo
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    Oct 15, 2015 11:13 PM in response to aburigo
    I would like to have a Smart Album with us two and nobody else. I think this is a bug... Any ideas?

     

    An additional keyword might help.  I tag all photos of me and my husband that I want in a joint album with the keyword "We".

     

    Now a can search for our photos and add further constraints, like a date range or a place.

  • by francdesp,

    francdesp francdesp Oct 16, 2015 1:43 AM in response to léonie
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    Oct 16, 2015 1:43 AM in response to léonie

    Hi

     

    It's works for me (with select Faces in a smart album).

     

    I have the last version of Photos App.

     

    Regards

     

    Francois