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I want to be able to search my photos by a pets name. Like how they have ppls faces for names but I have geckos and rodents so I can’t search for them based on giving the photos a name I only have to individually name photos with captions containing their name. I can’t even search for dog or cat because I have exotic pets and AI doesn’t know what a Richardson’s ground squirrel is lolol (one of my pets)
You can manually tag pets and have them appear in the People view, just like people:
But Photos won't search for these using automatic face recognition. However, once they're tagged, you can use that in a search. You can also have a Smart Album specify {"Person" "includes" "Flurry"} (for my cat) and it will find the manual tags.
You should add the pets' names as keywords. Use the manual tagging to show which one is Flurry and which one is Kinsey when they appear in the same picture.
You can manually tag pets and have them appear in the People view, just like people:
But Photos won't search for these using automatic face recognition. However, once they're tagged, you can use that in a search. You can also have a Smart Album specify {"Person" "includes" "Flurry"} (for my cat) and it will find the manual tags.
You should add the pets' names as keywords. Use the manual tagging to show which one is Flurry and which one is Kinsey when they appear in the same picture.
You can only add keywords in Photos for Mac. But if a photo has been tagged with keywords, you can search for the keyword also in Photos iOS on an iPhone or iPad.
To add a keyword in Photos for Mac you simply type it into the Info for a photo (where it says "Add a keyword", or get familiar with the keyword manager. Then you can define keyboard shortcuts to keywords and assign the keyword with one keyclick, a different keyboard shortcut for each of your pets.
See: Find photos by keyword in Photos on Mac – Apple Support (UK)
You can manually add Faces circles to anything in a photo or video, but only in Photos for Mac. Are you asking about Photos on a Mac or on an iPhone or iPad? On a mobile device you can only name the faces that Photos has automatically recognized as a face.
Once I add the faces in profits for max will it automatically find similar faces in photos or do I have to do it individually for each picture? And when that’s done will I be able to search for my pets on my phone?
Manually added faces are not used for the face recognition. You will have to tag each and every pet face manually. And currently the manually added faces are not very stable after system upgrades or when syncing with iCloud Photos. Usually the faces I add on my Mac will sync with iCloud Photos to my iPhone and iPad, but not always, and I have to add the manually added faces over and over again after a major system upgrade that has improved the face detection. It might be much less trouble to assign the names of your pets as keywords. Keywords are more stable in the long run, and will even be exported with the photos when you share them.
For what it's worth, you can search by animal type. At least, it works for cats. I know that isn't precisely what your asking and, if you have a lot of any one type of animal, it might not be very helpful. I don't label my pets by name but, as I only have three, searching for "cat" works well enough.
How do you add keywords? And do I have to do this for every photo? Yes I never use photos for Mac. Only on my phone. It can tell me my black cat is a Bombay cat (which is wrong) but doesn’t search for black or cat on my phone. I wish apple would update this. Or at least so I could search by black cat or leopard gecko or rodent. But I can’t even use those keywords
Manually, yes:
Automatically, no.
I also add keywords for them as it's a bit more effective is finding them.
lindsey2201 wrote:
Can you tag pet’s names in photos like you can for people?
No.
I didn’t know ther was a difference. If I add them in my Mac photos will it then recognize them in my iPhone photos?
If you’re using macOS, you can add keywords or comments to photos.
I use the critter name, critter type, and critter location as keyword tags.
I just saw this but only for phone, not iPad. It looks like it’s the iOS 17 update.
Bummer that it only works on dogs and cats. It won’t work on my reptiles or other exotic pets :(
Can you tag pet’s names in photos like you can for people?
