I have a lot of friends tagged in Photos so I can find them in the People album. The largest collection are of myself and husband. I tag ourselves but photos drops them. I have tried several days in a row and the next day they are gone. Is there a limit on the number of tags you can have?
MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 12.0
I have this same problem (which has persisted over all versions of MacOS), no library repair prevents it happening again. This is a ‘quirk’ Apple has not fixed, it tends to only impact the photos you manually tag (rather than the ones the system identifies for you). Sometimes the tags drop off within a few minutes, days or weeks - there is no identifiable pattern.
To answer your question about names / tags; you can tag using your contacts names or by manually adding a name. The problem with tags dropping off happens to me with both tags linked to contacts and names I’ve added just to the library (when these are manually tagged).
You may like to add keywords to these photos which will allow you to find them again e.g. tag the face and add a keyword to the photo with that persons name. So when you search on that keyword it should do the same thing as opening the people / face album. To help you get a head start, go to the people / face album, select all and add the keyword in bulk to existing tagged faces, then add the keyword to all future photos you add with the same face. Do this for each person you are tagging with their own unique keyword. It’s frustrating but really the only way I’ve found to ‘defeat’ the lost face tags.
I have this same problem (which has persisted over all versions of MacOS), no library repair prevents it happening again. This is a ‘quirk’ Apple has not fixed, it tends to only impact the photos you manually tag (rather than the ones the system identifies for you). Sometimes the tags drop off within a few minutes, days or weeks - there is no identifiable pattern.
To answer your question about names / tags; you can tag using your contacts names or by manually adding a name. The problem with tags dropping off happens to me with both tags linked to contacts and names I’ve added just to the library (when these are manually tagged).
You may like to add keywords to these photos which will allow you to find them again e.g. tag the face and add a keyword to the photo with that persons name. So when you search on that keyword it should do the same thing as opening the people / face album. To help you get a head start, go to the people / face album, select all and add the keyword in bulk to existing tagged faces, then add the keyword to all future photos you add with the same face. Do this for each person you are tagging with their own unique keyword. It’s frustrating but really the only way I’ve found to ‘defeat’ the lost face tags.
Hi tbayhiker,
We understand that you're running into an issue with tagging people in photos. There isn't a set limit on the number of people that can be tagged. Be sure that you're following the steps in this article for tagging and saving the photos and if you are still having an issue, try repair the library:
Find photos by keyword in Photos on Mac
Repair your library in Photos on Mac
Have a good day.
Thank You NelsC7. I may have to repair my library. I have done some more investigation and it seems to be just my photo tags that are the issue....I think. And upon more investigation it seems when tagging there are to tags I can choose from (both me). I have merged these two but the problem persists. Do the tag names come from Contacts? If so I can delete one of my profiles in Contacts (I have one that is business related and the other personal) and try again. I would like to fix what is causing the issue before repairing (or do repair fix this problem?)
Photo People Album Losing Tags
