Photos vs people face recognition since 16.4

Hi !

since 16.4 maybe the release before I have noticed something weird in the people recognition. I am wondering if there has been no change in the algorithm…

when I go to the people album I discovered photos with face of people that were not this guy. I rename the guy on the picture to say it’s another name. Verify , it appear in the other name guy and so on. I have 20,30 appearing every day and certain pictures I have specifically told it’s not him it’s someone else keep on coming back on the wrong people name roll. What’s the **** is happening I always had a clean and proper sorting and it sounds like it’s going slightly bad now … anyone has same experience ?


(i just try the RC of 16.5 to see if it solve the issue I experienced with 16.4 & 16.4.1 but not solving anything)

iPhone 14 Pro Max

Posted on May 14, 2023 1:00 AM

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May 14, 2023 1:53 AM in response to FlORkY

When Photos has merged the faces of two people in one album, it has learned, that the two faces are very similar.

If we just move the incorrectly named faces out of wrong people album, it does not help much, because this album will continually attract the similar faces.

When the face is continually put back into the wrong People album, we have to recreate this album from scratch so it can learn again what the person looks like, based only on correct faces.

What I have done to fix the misclassification is the following:

  • First, I collected all photos from the person where wrong faces get added in a new standard album, to be able to find them quickly in an album.
  • Then I added a new temporary Contact card for the person, where the wrong pictures are added, so we can tell Photos the faces belong to a different, new person. We have to use a name for this person, that has never been used with Photos, try a new nickname - that is why we need an additional Contact card.
  • Then I removed all faces of this person from the previous People album with "This is not ..." and added them immediately to the new album - constantly checking that Photos is not adding again wrong faces. These have to be removed immediately.
  • And I collected all faces of the other person, that got misclassified, in a second new people album, so Photos will not try to assign them again to the wrong person, as they already have a name. When I do not know the name of the person, I use a phantasy name, "Stranger One" or similar.


I have used the new people albums with the new contact cards for several weeks, until the face recognition seemed to be stable.

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