"Unnamed" faces on Photos

Photos identifies faces and tags them as "unnamed". Often they are faces in a crowd that I don't know. I would like to be able to delete the "unnamed" tag so it don't detract from viewing the picture. Surely there is some way to do this. Please help.

Posted on Feb 11, 2019 12:33 PM

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Posted on Feb 11, 2019 1:15 PM

If your Mac is running macOS 10.13 High Sierra or a newer system, there is no way to get rid of the automatically unnamed faces. In the current system version you can only remove faces you marked yourself, but not the automatically detected faces.

Just ignore them. You may want to disable the display of the faces circles, so the unnamed faces do not clutter up your photos.

Click "View > Metadata > Hide Faces Names"



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Feb 11, 2019 1:15 PM in response to svos

If your Mac is running macOS 10.13 High Sierra or a newer system, there is no way to get rid of the automatically unnamed faces. In the current system version you can only remove faces you marked yourself, but not the automatically detected faces.

Just ignore them. You may want to disable the display of the faces circles, so the unnamed faces do not clutter up your photos.

Click "View > Metadata > Hide Faces Names"



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