There are people in my photos App Library that are not recognized. There is no question mark icon to ID them. I have tried locking the phone and waiting but it does not further index the pictures.
Is there a way to force the pics to index? Or is the there a way to make photos recognize a certain person?
iOS 18.1.1 iPhone 13pro
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iPhone 13 Pro, iOS 18
A. Stradford wrote: Does the same apply for M4 iPad Pro??? Can only be done on Mac?
That's correct. In iOS and in iPadOS only the recognized faces can be named. So, as léonie said, we put the people's names in the caption so it will be included in searches.
This is good practice in any case. Face tags can be lost in OS update, and they don't transfer with an exported image file. But captions export with the picture. I include the name in the caption for every picture that has a recognized face, as well as for un-recognized faces.
If you would like to make suggestions to Apple, go here:
You can only add missing faces on in Photos for Mac, but not in Photos on an iPhone.
You may want to add the missing name to the caption of the photo, so the search will find this photo as well.
Thank you. That works. I was out of town for a month and could not access my desktop Mac.
Does the same apply for M4 iPad Pro??? Can only be done on Mac?
Thanks for the info.
People in the photo app are not tagged and I can’t add them to people and pets.
