Photos Keeps Unnaming a Group of Photos

Hi everyone,

Hoping someone can give me a solution to this because I’m one hair short of deleting my photos off my iOS devices and dumping them all elsewhere.

After my last iOS update, my Photos app started unnaming groups of photos of random named people (and therefore their photos) in my People list. There was no rhyme or reason - it just started happening right after the update.

The photos are all still there, they’re all correctly grouped together, but no matter what I do, I can’t permanently merge them with their correct name and I can’t permanently rename them either because after charging my device, the groups of photos become unnamed all over again.

To illustrate what I mean:

I have 50ish photos of John Doe. After the last update, 30ish of them lost their name and, for lack of a better description, became their own group of photos without a name.

At this point, I now have a group of 20ish pictures of John Doe and another unnamed group of 30ish pictures that should be John Doe’s and WAS named to John Doe, but now aren’t.

Aside from the group of 30 losing their John Doe name, nothing else seems out of the ordinary, so I merge the photo groups successfully… only to have the two groups separate again after I charge my device. I try renaming the group of 30 to something else… only to have the group lose its name after I charge my device.

So now I’m left with a group of 30 photos that were once correctly named to John Doe that can neither be permanently merged with John Doe nor permanently named as someone else. Additionally I have some photos that keep getting tagged to the wrong person no matter what I do and yes, this problem also happened after the last update.

Repeat this on a larger scale and with multiple people and that’s my problem.

Is there a way to fix this or is my only solution to delete all my photos and re-name everyone again?

Thanks in advance.