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Trouble adding faces and face names in photos

Circles for face names are not on faces and can't be moved because they are automatically generated by photos. How can they be moved or deleted?

iMac 21.5″, macOS 13.4

Posted on Jul 15, 2023 6:05 PM

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Posted on Jul 16, 2023 1:47 AM

This can happen, if you crop or rotate the photo after the faces have been detected.

Undoing the cropping should bring the faces circles back to the correct position. Or add a tiny, invisible retouche to the cropped photo. That will force Photos to repeat the scan for faces for this photo. The incorrectly positioned faces circles will be removed, and if Photos cannot find the faces again in the cropped photo, you can add the faces manually by clicking the + button in the Info for the photo.





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Jul 16, 2023 1:47 AM in response to ElGuadPaso102018

This can happen, if you crop or rotate the photo after the faces have been detected.

Undoing the cropping should bring the faces circles back to the correct position. Or add a tiny, invisible retouche to the cropped photo. That will force Photos to repeat the scan for faces for this photo. The incorrectly positioned faces circles will be removed, and if Photos cannot find the faces again in the cropped photo, you can add the faces manually by clicking the + button in the Info for the photo.





Trouble adding faces and face names in photos

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