Will Photos still have Faces

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Will Photos still have Faces

Hello

Does anyone know if Photos will still have the Faces feature? I have put MANY hours into this, since my iPhoto library is over 520GB. I'd hate to lose this feature.

I saw a mention that all faces are put into a folder with that person's name. Will we still be able to have Photos auto-detect faces? Or will it be a manual move to these folders from this point forward?

Same question with Places. I use them both a lot.

Thanx

Cooch

Mac Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.2), 10GB Ram

Posted on Feb 6, 2015 8:16 PM

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Answer 1

Kappy

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Feb 6, 2015 8:20 PM in response to J Cooch Lucchese

We are forbidden from discussing beta software on the forums. You'll have to wait until it's released.

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LarryHN

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Feb 6, 2015 8:27 PM in response to J Cooch Lucchese

No one knowns and will not until the software is released - and the TOU of this forum forbid speculation on unreleased products

Here is what Apple currently says about Photos - https://www.apple.com/osx/photos-preview/

LN

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léonie

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Feb 7, 2015 3:57 AM in response to J Cooch Lucchese

If you click the link LarryHN linked to, you will see that there will still be a Faces album:

https://www.apple.com/osx/photos-preview/

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Csound1

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Feb 7, 2015 4:01 AM in response to J Cooch Lucchese

Yes to both, they were shown at the preview, publicly, so we can discuss that.

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léonie

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Feb 7, 2015 5:03 AM in response to J Cooch Lucchese

The beautiful all-new design of the Photos app uses Moments, Collections, and Years views to automatically organize your photos and videos by time and location.

You can see from Apple's presentation, that Photos will organize your photos according to the Places, just like Photos on iOS8 devices. Only, none of the presentations is showing any possibility to add locations to a phot, if it does not already have GPS tags, when you import it to Photos. You'll have to wait and see, if that will still be possible.

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Feb 7, 2015 8:43 PM in response to léonie

Thank you.

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léonie

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Feb 7, 2015 11:44 PM in response to J Cooch Lucchese

You're welcome! 🙂

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ChrisKet

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Mar 12, 2015 2:24 PM in response to léonie

This makes me soooo happy! It is similar to the way faces come across from my iMac to my iPad today. Does anyone know if the sort order will be corrected, though? Both the faces and events within Photos on the iPad have some random sort order (in today's version!) and like J Cooch Lucchese, I've spent hundreds of hours tagging and organizing my 50k+ photos, which include those I've scanned from my parents and grandparents. I'm a little hesitant to sign up for the Beta version, but if anyone does and can provide input, I'd love to hear it!

~ChrisKet

J Cooch Lucchese

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