How do I turn off faces in Photos?

Still seems to be showing?

(menu on top of a 'home page/dashboard' view of Photos showing Faces still there with faces from my photos). Similarly:

~/Pictures/Photos Library.photoslibrary> find . -iname \*faces\* -exec ls -ld {} \;

-rw-r--r--@ 1 apple apple 1146880 22 Mar 14:20 ./Database/apdb/Faces.db

-rw-r--r--@ 1 apple apple 0 22 Mar 14:20 ./Database/apdb/Faces.db-wal

drwxr-xr-x 6 apple apple 204 27 Apr 2015 ./Database/Faces

lrwxr-xr-x@ 1 apple apple 13 27 Apr 2015 ./Database/Faces.db -> apdb/Faces.db

drwxr-xr-x 4 apple apple 136 14 Jun 17:09 ./private/com.apple.Photos/faces

Why is there a 1.1MB file for something I've turned off?

I don't have much hope that user requests to disable Faces will help in the near future. The next operating system to be released in autumn is making heavy use of the Faces feature. Essential new features of Photos, like the Memories, are built on top of the Faces album, see: this link macOS Preview - Apple

Apple cannot afford to disable the Faces support without making major new features obsolete. But send feedback nevertheless to let Apple know.

Faces feature. Essential new features of Photos, like the Memories, are built on top of the Faces album, see: this link macOS Preview - Apple

I've heard about the new emphasis on Siri. So far, I find Siri to be nothing other than a toy. I try to use it periodically on my iPhone 6s, 97.48% of the time the results are irrelevant and utterly useless. I'm a native English speaker with a Midwest accent. Perhaps they found a way to improve it.

Hard to imagine being in an office with a bunch of Mac users all yakking away at their computers.

View menu ==> hide faces

LN

The face detection is automatic in Photos and cannot be disabled. The face detection process will always be running and create a faces database and faces thumbnails. You can only prevent the faces from showing.

Don't delete the databases in the library. Photos will just recreate them and waste processing time. Try, if deleting all unnamed faces thumbnails from the bottom of the Faces album will free some storage.

Photos will not open the library at all, if it is read-only.

But you could use the Power Photos application to browse the Photos library. it does not write to the Photos library. Try the free trial version.

nateau wrote:

Thanks, that's really good. Do you know what happens if you make the database a read-only file? (so Photos can't create/extend it)

Then of course you simply will not be able to use Photos at all - to do anything that database must be fully accessible by Photos

LN

There are not many occasions when Siri is useful.

when speakable items first came out on the early Macintoshs, I tried to use it during lectures instead of a remote control to advance slides and open documents, but it was a disaster. Any of my students could control my Mac this way by simply shouting "Shut down" or similar and the lecture was over.

During yesterday's Apple event Siri has been praised as a way for multi processing - we can ask Siri to do tasks in the background while we continue working in a full screen application. I prefer smaller windows, where I can see several application windows open at the same time, so taht is no selling point for me.

Strongly suggest you leave feedback here. Apple does read all feedback and they do add features if enough people request them.

http://www.apple.com/feedback/photos.html

Thanks, that's really good. Do you know what happens if you make the database a read-only file? (so Photos can't create/extend it)