How to enter multiple keywords in Photos

Hi

We are users here like you - if you want to give feedback to apple, the only channel they might listen to is:

https://www.apple.com/feedback/photos.html

They are more likely to do something if a lot of people request the same.

I do not see how Keyword Manager helps to work around the long-standing bug JensenEW mentions above.

In Old Toad's screenshot of Keyword Manager it shows about 50 keywords. I have about 500. Some people have more. It is actually quicker to regain focus for type-in (by clicking on the keyword panel in the Info window) than to scroll back and forth on the Keyword Manager to find the relevant one.

I just ran across this same issue. After buying an M1 and transferring to Apple Photos from an old iPhotos library, I've spent a long time trying to figure out a good organization scheme and then went to start applying it using multiple keywords. It's bad enough to go back through my thousands of photos this way, but to have to click on the keywords field for each new keyword I want to insert makes the process nearly impossible. I'm surprised, and unhappy, this bug has persisted so I wanted to one up the suggestion that Apple fix it. As others have said the Keywords Pane isn't a suitable alternative. Not only is it cumbersome if you have lots of keywords, what if you are creating a new one? Please fix this Apple!

Following TonyCollinet's suggestion I also reported this on https://www.apple.com/feedback/photos.html as I have previously done here (I assume that Apple people read these discussions too) and via Feedback Assistant (“Photos: Info popup loses focus after adding each keyword” — February 16, 2020 — FB7584215).

Done. Thank you.

This has been an extremely annoying and obvious bug (one of many in Catalina) with no end in sight. Contacted a senior tech at Apple Support a couple of months ago, also mentioning the crop window controls (crop handles; rotate control, etc.) not appearing when using the keyboard command to access it. After over a week the keyword "fix" was to enter keywords, separated by a comma in TextEdit, and paste them into Photos (is this the 1980s?). The missing crop window tools was deemed "unexpected behavior." Neither issue seemed to be anything the engineers were working on restoring. Truly pathetic, considering iPhoto/Photos has been a flagship program since 2002, with Photos taking over in 2015. Curious to hear if these issues have been resolved in macOS Big Sur.

Using the awkward and cumbersome Keyword Pane is not an option for users like myself who has added keywords to thousands of images for decades.

Used to be a time when upgrading Apple software was a joy. After so many disappointments, I now stick with "what ain't broke" until forced to update, instead of suffering through endless bugs.

It has not even been corrected in Big Sur. The bug persists. After entering one keyword, the focus switches from the Info panel to main Photos window and the letters we enter are working as keyboard shortcuts.

I have added my most frequently used keywords to the quick group of the Keyword Manager, so I can add them with the keyboard shortcut. This has the added bonus, that I can filter any album by these keywords

Using the Keyword Manager is currently the only way to avoid the problem with the lost focus.

The other work-around would be to assign keyword to multiple selected photos instead of assigning multiple keywords to one photo.

My workflow is to select all photos at once that need the same keyword and then to assign this keyword, for example "Bird". Then I select all photos showing a lighthouse and assign the keyword "Lighthouse", etc.

The Keyword manager helps, if you have assigned keyboard shortcuts to the keywords you are currently using in your project. Using the keyword shortcut avoids the lost focus in the Info panel.

When I am working with newly imported photos I usually do not need all my thousand keywords. For the current project usually a selection of twenty keywords for so will suffice and I add these to the QuickGroup, so I can assign them with on keyboard shortcut.

Otherwise, if you want to type keywords into the Info, you have to avoid any sudden motion that could cause the cursor to move out of the Info. That is nearly impossible when using a laptop with a trackpad.

I sue the Keyword pane (⌘+K) to add keywords to photos. One can drag the most frequently used keywords into the top section which assigns them a letter shortcut for adding/removing.

You can drag at least 25 of the most used keywords to the top of the Keyword Manager window and they get assigned a letter key stroke for adding. I stopped at 25 but maybe more.