turning off faces in iPhoto

User lopezio posted this method which turns of the faces feature in iPhoto:

lopezio

Re: Iphoto 11 -How to turn off faces?

Dec 30, 2013 9:06 AM (in response to mkmichaelmk)

Start of solution:

I did some digging in the prefs of iPhoto and found out the following. This is how you can disable (turn off) Face detection, without deleting faces found so far (just in case you want to restart processing at another time):

1. Quit iPhoto

2. Open Terminal Application (Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app)

3. Type the following (exactly as is):

defaults write com.apple.iPhoto PKFaceDetectionEnabled 0

(then return)

4. - Start iPhoto - Faces stops getting on your nerves...

If you ever need to re-enable faces, just do the same again and replace the 0 with 1.

Consider Aperture. It reads existing iPhoto files with no changes. You can disable Faces in preferences.

Moreover, you can have all of your Keywords displayed under each image.

And note that it has been reported that using that Hack has negative effects on Aperture - personally I treasure my photos too much to use unsupported hacks on my iPhoto library

LN