how to add more pictures to faces

I also struggled with this until I stumbled over the answer. It's pretty simply - once you know how. In OS X Photos app, go to Albums, then select the People album, then double click on the face of the person you want to search for (you will need to have previously recognised at least one face). This opens a new screen with all the pictures of this person previously recognised by you and/or Photos. Scroll to the bottom of this screen and click on the words "Confirm Additional Photos" which appear in blue. Voila! Photos brings up additional suggestions.

Scroll to the bottom of this screen and click on the words "Confirm Additional Photos" which appear in blue. Voila! Photos brings up additional suggestions.

Yes, it will bring up thousands of suggestions that you have dismiss, because they are wrong. As long as you have not named a large number of faces of the person and your library is very large, it is much easier to get started by clicking the "+" button at the bottom at the People album and select recognized faces to merge into one person. Once you have confirmed hundreds of faces for a person , so photos has enough samples to learn what a person looks like, the face recognition will be more robust and the suggestions by "Confirm Additional Photos" much more useful.

Click on the Faces item in the Sidebar (command + option + S if it isn't visible), double-click one of the "Suggested Faces" from the horizontally scrolling list at the bottom of the window (click on the "Suggested Faces" text if the list isn't visible), & give it a name. If Photos detects any similar looking faces in other photos, it will ask if you want to add that name to them.

It isn't the simplest or most straightforward method imaginable but it is all the app offers in this respect.

Please let Apple know what features you want added to the app using the form at https://www.apple.com/feedback/photos.html

It's automatic in the new Photos app, if it thinks there are other photos of the person you are looking at it will tell you and ask if you want to confirm them.

You can also force this to happen on occasions however if you scroll along the line of suggested faces at the bottom of the faces page and find and click on the person you want to find more faces for.

iPhoto used to have this feature where it would find a face of someone, then automatically search your entire photo library and then dump Faces of that person into a Faces album.

I upgraded to Photos and this feature is not manual. Is this accurate? Why doesn't it scan automatically anymore? I've read through these posts and none of these answers seems to solve the problem.

Help!

Richard

So a relative in my family died today and I was asked to find all the pictures we had of her. I was disappointed that Photos dropped this feature. I had to go back to iPhoto to find all the pictures using facial recognition.

I hope Apple brings Photos at least up to the functionality available long-ago in iPhoto.

Not sure where you are looking but Photos does have face recognition.

I was disappointed that Photos dropped this feature. I had to go back to iPhoto to find all the pictures using facial recognition.

Photos does have face recognition and will even recognize more faces automatically than iPhoto did. But you have to get it started by first naming enough faces of a person from the list of suggested faces at the bottom of the All Faces album. Once you names enough faces so Photos could learn a face, it will present more faces when you name a face of the person.

Theres another way to add faces that has not been added yet:

Double click on any picture that has a face to be named.

When it opens, right click. Click "Get info".

In the popup you will see "Add Faces".

Click on the circle with the plus sign.

A circle with the plus in the center should popup on the picture. Place the circle over the face, name it then hit enter.

hope this helps

Click on the circle with the plus sign.

A circle with the plus in the center should popup on the picture. Place the circle over the face, name it then hit enter.

There is one problem with method. Faces you add manually will not be used by the face recognition algorithm, because you could label the back of a head or similar. You can add faces that Photos missed this way, but to get the automatic face recognition going you need to label the faces that Photos is showing in the strip of unnamed faces. The Faces scan is running as a background process . It pays off to let Photos run over night and wait for this initial scan to finish before adding faces manually.

I just stumbled across this: in the Faces album, it looks like the row of Suggested Faces across the bottom are the unidentified faces that are awaiting a match. You can drag and drop these faces from the bottom row into one of the recognized face circles above. Voila - the image is added as a face for that person, and more slide in from the right to fill the gap. And you can scroll the Suggested Faces strip to the left to see more and more unrecognized faces and manually match them by dragging them up.

I know this is an old thread, but I didn't see anyone suggest this.

Good - unfortunately this is all new in the last year since this thread was active - many things changed with OS X Sierra since then

LN