Photos app - People / People and Pets album - “confirm additional photos”

this is not addressing the issue described - pre IOS 17, you could open a person's "People" (now "People & Pets") album in the Apple Photos App on iPad/iPhone and click the 3 dots in the top right hand corner of the screen (in the top banner showing the person's name), this then gave a menu which INCLUDED "Confirm additional photos". This option has now gone.

The option to confirm additional photos is still on my Mac (Monterey)

This was a very useful function on iPad/iPhone, particularly since naming people in APPLE PHOTOS on one Apple Device very often does NOT sync across devices using iCloud... can we have it back please

Theere is no way to force the face detection and face recognition to run. Photos will scan any new photos for faces, once it has time and the opportunity. You can help Photos by removing any obstacles, that might prevent it from scanning more photos.

• Keep the iPhone connected to to a power supply and to WI-Fi over night.
• If your photos are syncing with iCloud, make sure your iCloud Photos Library is available - there must not be a problem with your AppleID or your iCloud storage. And you need free local storage as well, so Photos has free storage to download the originals to scan them.
• Check your library for items that cannot be processed by photos. A single bad apple could be blocking the background processes fro analysing more photos or videos.Are there any grey or white thumbnails in your library? Videos that cannot be edited? Photos shared with you, that you cannot edit?

🚨 AHHHHH, I figured it out!!!! 🚨

Here’s the step by step at least as of iOS 17.2.1

1. Go to albums>people &pets> select person or pet you’d like to review
2. Select “…” in top right corner
3. Select “review photos”
4. Review allllll of the photos and once at the bottom select “review more photos”
5. If you have a big photo library like me, be patient
6. Confirm photos and then select “done”
7. !!!!!!

wow I trulyyyy cannot believe I actually had something helpful to add to one of these forums but enjoy yall

xx

just figured it out and put the step by step below 😭

Hello ramona105,

Welcome to the Apple Support Communities!

It looks like you're wanting support with your iPhone's and iPad's Photos app. Check out this link to review more information on how the Photos app recognizes and sorts people, dogs, and cats in your Photos app and sorts them in the People & Pets album: Identify people and pets in Photos on iPhone.

If this is not the feature you're addressing, please explain in more detail what exactly is going on and what apps are in use when you have the problem. The more information that is posted, the better for others in the Apple Support Communities so they can join in and offer support.

Best wishes.

Any update on how to make the “confirm additional photos” function to come back?

I’m having the same issue

I have the same problem :(