how do you turn OFF faces in Iphoto?

You can not - let it finish and ignore it

That is not a feature of iPhoto - suggest to Apple - iPhoto Menu ==> provide iPhoto feedback.

LN

I can't really ignore it. It keeps putting empty face boxes all over my photographs when i view them. I can roll up the 'Faces' control on the right, which stops the boxes from appearing, but it won't stay rolled up.

Thanks for the suggestion. I just have. Add me to the list of users who can't stand the Faces function, and hope Apple will create a Preference option to turn it off, drive a stake through its heart and leave it quivering for dead.

Upgrade to Aperture. You can turn off faces there. Pay more get more options...

There such list here - this is strictly a user to user forum - once again you can suggest to Apple

LN

1 - Go into the Photos mode (without Event titles displayed) and select all of the photos.

2 - Click on the Info button at the bottom of the window.

3 - Close the Faces field at the right.

See if that will prevent the empty faces boxes from being presented on every photo.

OT

I have tried that, thanks. Now to see if the Faces boxes come back...

Did not work. In fact, Faces is back with a vengeance. I can do everything you just said, and as soon as the mouse passes over a photo with a face I get the stupid Faces thing again.

This is so annoying. I just don't want Faces at all, any of it, ever.

tell Apple - iPhoto menu ==> provide iPhoto feedback

LN

I'm running iPhoto 9.5 with Mavericks and the only time I get the box over a Face is when I'm in the Faces mode. Not when I'm viewing the photos in the Event or Photos mode.

Be sure to put in a feature request as TD suggested. The squeaky wheel gets the attention.

You mean Faces mode on the left, like Photos/Events/Faces/Places? I never touch that. What happens to me is that the widget on the right (in the Info panel) keeps turning itself on. When I collapse it the face boxes go away, but next thing I know it's expanded again.

I have submitted feedback on it; the latest time was this morning.

When I collapse it the face boxes go away, but next thing I know it's expanded again.

Try the following:

1 - delete the iPhoto preference file, com.apple.iPhoto.plist, that resides in your

User/Home/Library/ Preferences folder.

2 - delete iPhoto's cache file, Cache.db, that is located in your

User/Home/Library/Caches/com.apple.iPhoto folder (Snow Leopard and Earlier).

or with Lion and Mt. Lion from the User/Library/Containers/com.apple.iPhoto/
Data/Library/Caches/com.apple.iPhoto folder

3 - reboot, launch iPhoto and try again.

NOTE: In Lion and Mountain Lion the Library folder is now invisible. To make it permanently visible enter the following in the Terminal application window: chflags nohidden ~/Library and hit the Enter button - 10.7: Un-hide the User Library folder.

I think I tried that before, but are you sure this advice works for Mavericks? When I look in my "Macintosh HD" my top level seems to start with Library, not Home or User. I have Library/Preferences/ but there is no com.apple.iPhoto.plist in there.

The Home folder is the one with the house icon in the screenshot. It would be the folder with your short account name on it.

Got it. In Maverics it's Users not User BTW.

Did all of that, opened iPhoto and there was the Faces control opened up. Turned it off, viewed a pic containong a face and it opened again. Arrgh. If I leave the Info panel closed I won't get it, but I actually use the info panel.

That is flat-out annoying.