Face recognition in Photos not working on iPhone and iPad
The face recognition program hasnt run in my photos album in 2 months on my iphone and ipad. Setting issue?
iPad mini 5, iPadOS 26
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Hello Holyman08, welcome to the Apple Support Community!
Facial recognition analysis is a very heavy local process that only runs in the background when your device meets specific conditions. To restart indexing your faces, be sure to leave your iPhone and iPad plugged in, connected to Wi-Fi, and especially locked with the screen off (ideally all night), because the system pauses the scan as soon as the device is used or if it is in "Energy Saving" mode. If the block persists after several nights, try to deactivate and then re-enable the option by going to Settings > Apps > Photos, which will force iCloud to synchronize your People album data again. Have a good day :-)