How to split faces in Photos app?

I combined faces of my kids by a mistake. I just clicked the name of first one on a face of second one. And their albums are combined together with first kid name. I removed already all photos of second kid from this combined album. Now, when I tried to set the name of second kid to his photos it is automatically combined with first kid album. So I'm not ably to create the album for second kid. How to solved it?

Mac mini, macOS 10.15

Posted on Apr 22, 2020 10:48 PM

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Posted on Apr 22, 2020 11:14 PM

You will have to rename the merged faces individually, but Photos has a long memory and will merge the faces again, if you use the same names as before, because it has now recognised the two names as the same person. Use temporarily new nicknames, while you are correcting the merged names. I have described the procedure, that worked for me, here: How to Correct Merged People Albums - Apple Community

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Apr 22, 2020 11:14 PM in response to centauria

You will have to rename the merged faces individually, but Photos has a long memory and will merge the faces again, if you use the same names as before, because it has now recognised the two names as the same person. Use temporarily new nicknames, while you are correcting the merged names. I have described the procedure, that worked for me, here: How to Correct Merged People Albums - Apple Community

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