Face scanning in the photo app on iPhones is intrusive invasion of privacy. How do you stop the photo app scanning your pictures and categorising them into people / places / topics?
if Apple is scanning photos and trying to recognise a category for the pic, eg wedding, beach, cats, football, where is that meta-data stored? Who has access to that metadata? Who is the owner of the metadata and can I edit it please?
The only way to prevent Photos from scanning your library for faces and to recognise scenes or objects is never to connect the Mac to a power source, while you are logged into your user account. This can only be done on a portable Mac with a battery.
The face recognition results are stored in the Photos Library and synced with iCloud Photos across all your devices that are using iCloud Photos. I cannot help with instructions how to modify the Photos Library's the format of the library is continually changing between system versions and it is hard to tell what could be modified without damaging the library.
How do you turn off the face scanning in photos?
