Q: will traditional faces be supported in sierra photos
Does somebody know if the work done in photos to complete Faces data will be supported in OSX Sierra. I've more than 12000 photos tagged with Faces and I'm anxious to know if Apple will just get rid of my current data to replace it with their new way of finding Persons?
Thank you
iPhoto '11
Posted on Aug 28, 2016 8:04 PM
Have you looked at Apple's Sierra announcement? This information is available open on Apple's home page.
http://www.apple.com/macos/sierra-preview/
You can see that most of the new features of Photos on Sierra will be centered around a new, improved face detection, renamed to "Persons".
You’ve spent years capturing moments worth remembering. Now Photos can turn them into unforgettable experiences called Memories. And powerful new technologies make Photos even better at face recognition, let you display all your photos on a world map, and even allow you to search your photos by the objects and scenery in them.
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So the named faces will be important in the next version of photos, but before the first stable version of Sierra has been released, it would be futile to speculate, if there will be any compatibility problems.
I got into the habit of assigning keywords with faces names to any photo with detected faces in Photos, s o the faces name will be saved separately and I can see it in the Info panel. And I can more easily recreate the faces albums on other Macs, since the faces albums do not sync with iCloud Photo Library across Macs.
Posted on Aug 30, 2016 7:41 PM
