rich47

Q: force photos to search for faces

Is there a way to force Photos to search for faces, or will it only do it automatically when I have opened a "folder" of someone's face?

iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.2)

Posted on Apr 23, 2015 12:43 PM

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  • by Tom Ritch,

    Tom Ritch Tom Ritch Apr 5, 2016 6:32 PM in response to rich47
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    Apr 5, 2016 6:32 PM in response to rich47

    Photos searches for Faces in all photos all the time.  There is no way to turn this off. 

     

    Sometime the automatic search does not find a face, even when the face seems to be clearly visible.  In such a case, a button in the Info window (Command-I) will allow you too manually add a found face circle.  Faces added this way are are shown in the Faces album but are not used by the algorithm which defines the search for this specific face.