iPhone photos app curation

So after updating to iOS 13 on my phone, I noticed that photos has a feature where it curates your photos. On the photos tab, if you scroll all the way down it will give you the status.


so I’ve installed iOS 13 on launch on my xs max. And it’s still stuck on curating. The progress bar is almost complete. And it hasn’t finished.


I got an iPhone 11 pro three days ago and signed on to the same Apple ID and it’s stuck as well. My iPad Pro had oddly completed and on the photos tab it says citations complete.


all three devices signed into the same Apple ID. Has been connected to wifi and power.


Any one having this issue as well ?

iPhone XS

Posted on Sep 25, 2019 6:15 AM

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Posted on Sep 25, 2019 8:18 AM

iCloud might be interfering, if you are using iCloud Photos on your devices with "Optimize Storage". I noticed that the scanning of the library for face recognition and object recognition takes much longer, if the photos are not stored locally on my iPhone or iPad. After I disabled "Optimize Storage" the scan finished much faster. The curating requires the previous face detection and object recognition. Can you afford to have all photos and videos stored locally on your devices?


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Oct 7, 2019 2:27 PM in response to tygs

update: the iPad is still processing along. two weeks now? it's finally about three quarters of the way done. In reading some of the posts, it appears that turning off and on iCloud seems to help? I tried that and it did not seem to change anything. I guess I am assuming at this point that it will finish. Eventually....when I get my medicare card in the mail (10 more years). My fear is that it will get to 80% and stop (like someone posted) but I see what the curation is about now (since most of my library is done) but the algorithms are way off and in my opinion not worth the wait of the curation. BTW...anyone know the limit of images apple has on the photos app? Thanks everyone!

Oct 25, 2019 6:27 AM in response to léonie

They tell us that for curation the phone needs to be plugged to power. If you have hundreds or even thousands of photos to curate which takes a tremendous amount of time I wonder how that works? Buy a second iPhone while the first is plugged to power source for days??? Very clever... I face the same issue and that feature doesn't work for me at all. Too much of a hassle. I am happy with Google Photos.

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