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Q: How to turn off Faces in Photos (not in iPhoto)

How do I turn off Faces in Photos in El Capitan? I am willing to use Terminal, a pref-setting app... anything. By the way, when I use a prefs-setting app now, it shows me files for iPhoto, but not for Photos (at least according to searches for the word "photos" or "photo"). Sigh.

 

Thanks, in advance, for help, everybody! I hope my sarcasm hasn't turned off too many of you.

 

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Posted on Oct 4, 2015 3:05 AM

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Q: How to turn off Faces in Photos (not in iPhoto)

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  • by LarryHN,Apple recommended

    LarryHN LarryHN Oct 4, 2015 6:55 AM in response to phdtop
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    Oct 4, 2015 6:55 AM in response to phdtop

    You can not

     

    You can under the view menu hide face names

     

    LN

  • by rafaelfromherne,

    rafaelfromherne rafaelfromherne Oct 8, 2015 4:25 AM in response to phdtop
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    Oct 8, 2015 4:25 AM in response to phdtop

    I am really upset and disappointed.

    Upset about Apples decision to make the face recognition not to disable any more.

    Please - Tell my why!


    And disappointed about the lack of interest.

    Please - Why do you all accept these simplification of formerly useful software?

  • by Francis Fenderson,

    Francis Fenderson Francis Fenderson Oct 10, 2015 12:38 PM in response to rafaelfromherne
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    Oct 10, 2015 12:38 PM in response to rafaelfromherne

    I couldn't agree more. I just migrated 15 years of photos from my iPhoto and Aperture libraries into Photos. It's a disaster as far as I'm concerned.

     

    I can't yet sync photos through iTunes because I'm still waiting on several processes to complete (photolibraryd and others) despite Apple giving no indication of any work being done to the library. From the forum posts I've read, this may take 24 or more hours to complete because my library is so large. The image editing tools in Photos are a complete joke compared to Aperture's which has led me to purchasing Affinity Photo and other tools (I won't rent software from Adobe). The ability to manage the software in personally meaningful ways are disabled -- I don't need a "Selfies" folder nor do I want Faces enabled but hey, Apple knows best so I guess have to have those features.

     

    I'm really struggling to understand both the appeal and purpose of Photos.

  • by Mick A,

    Mick A Mick A Aug 12, 2016 1:42 AM in response to LarryHN
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    Aug 12, 2016 1:42 AM in response to LarryHN

    Larry, is there a way to clear the entire Faces corkboard? I just imported hundreds of photos of about a dozen 300-person choirs (that's 3,600 faces not counting the rest in my photo library) and I need a way to clear them all out of the corkboard.  I tried "select all" followed by using the Delete key but Faces' idea of "all" is not mine because more faces just popped up.  Alternately, is there a way to say that "Album XYZ" is exempt from Faces scrutiny? 

    I really think tools should be helpful, not oppressive.  Even just hiding the Faces folder along with a way to edit or hide the Selfie folder would be nice, too.  Some of my "selfies" are photos of objects, not me - the front-facing camera is great for helping with plumbing, HVAC, automotive, and other DIY repairs in cramped, hard to access spaces.

    Thanks in advance for any tips on how to make Faces somewhat manageable. 

    Mick

  • by Old Toad,

    Old Toad Old Toad Aug 13, 2016 8:35 AM in response to Mick A
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    Aug 13, 2016 8:35 AM in response to Mick A
    Larry, is there a way to clear the entire Faces corkboard?

    There is no cork board for faces in the Photos library.  Are you using iPhoto or Photos.  If iPhoto ask your question in the iPhoto for Mac forum. 

     

    For Faces in iPhoto there is a way to kill the face recognition function as posted by user lopezio:

    lopezio

    Re: Iphoto 11 -How to turn off faces?

    Dec 30, 2013 9:06 AM (in response to mkmichaelmk)

    Start of solution:

     

    I did some digging in the prefs of iPhoto and found out the following. This is how you can disable (turn off) Face detection, without deleting faces found so far (just in case you want to restart processing at another time):

     

    1. Quit iPhoto

    2. Open Terminal Application (Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app)

    3. Type the following (exactly as is):

     

    defaults write com.apple.iPhoto PKFaceDetectionEnabled 0

     

    (then return)

     

    4. - Start iPhoto - Faces stops getting on your nerves...

     

    If you ever need to re-enable faces, just do the same again and replace the 0 with 1.

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