How can I get rid of the "unnamed" feature in iPhoto?

It is very simple to turn it off, first of all open the Info panel on the left and click on the word Faces or the little arrow to the Right of the word Faces. It will say off on all pictures till you turn it back on

In my photos when the cursor gets close to the UNAMED tag, there is a circle that comes up and an X on the left side of the circle. Click on the X and the tag disappears. I just found that out and it works.

View the Photo at full size.

Click on the Info button at bottom of the screen. The Info Pane appears on the right.

Opposite the word Faces note the tiny arrow point up.

Click on it.

If Apple Developers are looking at this forum, the face recognition feature should be off by default. It is poor user interface design to force a feature upon a large segment of users who not only find no use for this function but find it a real nuisance.

The user interface should provide some obvious way to turn this feature on and off. Logically that would be in the application preferences panel. It is not good interface design to force users to do a google search to find out how to get rid of an annoying feature.

As an aside, in the early days of the Mac, the quality of the UI was paramount. Whatever happened to it? Has solid UI design just been replaced by fashion design perhaps?

iPhoto menu -> Provide iPhoto Feedback

This forum is Users taking to other users.

Thanks, I know that. I was just wondering if Apple might scout out the forums to look for product development ideas. Do they have any direct feedback channels?

That's the direct feedback channel.

I've just requested they remove, or make optional, the "unnamed" part of iPhoto. It's terribly annoying. Maybe if they hear from many of us, they'll do something about it.

Jay

I'm new to iMac, but it frustrated me for awhile clicking on the 'x' for an unnamed face pane, and it wouldn't do anything. Turns out all you have to is name it (or in some cases move an already named face to get to the unnamed face below it) to delete the unnamed face from your photos.

All in all though, I gotta say...iPhoto is a freakin AWESOME way to organize my family's photos and improve their appearance. 90% of the time I just click enhance, and the image is vastly improved. I just got this iMac and it's tough to pick up some things, but it's safe to say, F windows - I'll never go back! 😀

on the Menu, "View"->"Hide Face Names". That should take care of it. But I agree. It's super frustrating that it's not on preferences. That's where most of us would look.

I think you'll find that 'View -> Hide Face Names' command is not in iPhoto, which this question refers to, on this, the iPhoto forum, but is one found in the Photos app, which replaced iPhoto.

You mean, just like the first answer posted, complete with screengrab and marked Solved?

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It works! Thanks a lot!