Photos recognizing pet as person

I have the problem also. I want all pics of my dog in the same album - don't care if it's the People or the Pet one. Not being able to merge them is silly. The suggestion to say "these people are not..." isn't helpful, because now those pictures aren't in a person/pet album and I really don't want to go through all 18000 pics and find them to properly label them.

This is nuts, I have hundreds of photos of pets, to go back and reassign them as pets instead of People is not helpful. We need to be able to merge the album and decide if they should be pets or people. Please get this fixed.

I have a similar problem. I have 2 photo albums in people & pets with my dog’s photos. However, 1 photo album is recognized as a person, while the other is recognized as a pet. Due to this, I’m not able to merge the 2 albums. How do I make 1 of that album recognize my dog as a pet instead of a person?

Hello rsomp,

Thank you for reaching out to Apple Support Communities.

If it misidentifies him as a person, you can correct it and mark him as a pet using these steps:

"Fix misidentifications

1. Open the Photos app  on your iPhone.
2. Tap Albums, tap People & Pets, then tap the person or pet that’s misidentified.
3. Tap Select, then tap Show Faces.
4. Tap the images that are misidentified, tap , then tap These are Not [name].

You can also fix misidentifications while viewing a photo in your library. Tap  or swipe up to see the photo information. Tap the misidentified person or pet in the bottom-left corner of the photo, then tap This is Not [name]."

Additional details can be found here: Identify people and pets in Photos on iPhone

If the issue persists can you provide a few more details? Also, are you seeing duplicates of the same photos?

Cheers!

Please send feedback, requests for enhancements don't necessarily go to the right people if posted on this board:

Product Feedback - Apple

You can't all you can do is send feedback to inform Apple of the issue.

I’ve posted this elsewhere, but maybe someone over here knows how to also achieve the inverse: how do I convince photos my kids in puppy costumes are people, not pets?

(these are the worst of the photos as far as facial visibility

Quite a few fall photos for several years are unable to be labeled as a person despite the faces being clearly visible (they wore these *a lot* around Halloween haha)

Gotta love when you try to calmly explain the issue only to find you can't even upload images to the feedback to help describe the issue, and then you get hit with a character limit after trying to type it all out. Solid effort apple

If it gets to the desk of someone who is interested, they will reach out to you for more information.

"People" has to have actual faces to identify! But you can include names in the captions of the pictures, and then a search for the name will get it. I select a "People" person and select them all and add a caption. Doing that, I can include people who aren't directly facing the camera.

I should add that, entering a caption erases what's already there. So with multiple people you have to be careful.

Definitely, many members of our large family are continually ‘providing feedback’. Just hoping there was an improvement we aren’t aware of.