Photos, Smart album to find photos with unknown faces?

It's not a fix but I have been trying to go through my entire library trying to find all of the photos that have detected, but unnamed faces. I just realized if I select all of the detected but unnamed faces and assign them a random, unused name, it will group them all as one person in faces and then it's easier to go through the photos and either appropriately name people or remove the erronous detection.

The ability for smart albums to find detected but unnamed faces would be ideal. It's ridiculous it's not a feature.

Here is a workaround, that actually worked pretty well for me:

1. In Photos, go to Album > Faces
2. In the lower part of the window, click to select one of the suggested faces
3. Press cmd-a on your keyboard to select all faces
4. Press Enter on your keyboard to enter a name.
5. Enter the name "Unknown" in the diaglogue, and press enter (or the "Continue" button).
6. If Photos finds faces similar to those you just added, click the button "Add and Continue".

You may have to repeat this several times before all your unkown faces have been named "Unknown".

Since all your unknown faces will now have the name "Unknown", you can go through them one by one, giving the right name to each person and remove any unwanted faces. As you do this, the faces will be automagically removed from the group "Unknown" and added to the correct person instead.

Hope this helps!

/Magnus Ehinger

Using "Face is not %" did produce a smart album smaller than All Photos and including photos with an identified but unnamed face. However, it also includes photos with no identified face. So, it's helpful but not really what we are looking for.

Ok, so just now (Photos v2.0 445.1.15) I created an "Smart Album" with condition:

Person includes unnamed

And it found everyone who is labelled as "unnamed" or "Click To Name" in all my photos.

Is that what you wanted? Seems to be what I was looking for.

Didn't work for me? I put that in, found very few <20 photos from 20'000+ and clicking on some in the album the people were named already?

The problem is, that this album does not update automatically, after a face have been named. My "unnamed" smart album is still showing the photos it contained initially, and all faces are named.

Huh. Ok, this isn't working the way I thought it was. It's not finding every photo with unnamed faces, and it's finding photos that *had* unnamed faces even after they're deleted or named.

I have no idea what Photos is actually doing here, but it seems useless after all.

Weirdly, if you bring up the "Info" panel (inspector?) for a photo, it will show faces that are tagged, even if there are none shown on the picture with "View"/"Show Face Names" enabled. Maybe it's some old data from an earlier version of the face tagging?