Faces - People I don't Know What to Do

You can select a gorup and ignore them - there is no way other than just doing it

LN

You can select several faces at once in the strip of unnamed faces, ctrl-click the selection, then select "Ignore ....faces".

To select a range of faces click the first face, then had down the shift key and select the last face of the range.

There is no way to ignore them en-mass, because there's no way for Photos to know which of the identified faces are meaningful to YOU. If "Unidefied" bothers you, they you'll just have to dismiss them, basically, one by one.

What does help, is that when you're in the Faces album and look at the Suggested Faces row at the bottom of the screen, you can Command-click to select more than one suggested face (scroll to see more), right-click on any of the selected faces, then choose Ignore X faces.

Forget to note...

The way to avoid this mess, is to perform this task at steady intervals, so you don't accumulate too many new "unidentified" and "need-confirming" faces at any one time.

But does this still tag them as having a person in the photo if I did a search for photos with people?

Clicking "Ignore this Face" for a group of photos will remove the suggested face from the strip of unnamed faces below the faces album. But it will not remove the faces circle from the photos, if you have "View > Show Faces Names" enabled".

For example, in this library I rejected all suggested faces, but some photos are still showing unnamed faces, when I enlarge the photos. I have to click the "x" to remove the faces thumbnail as well.

But still, it is better to "Ignore" the faces than to add them all to a special faces album "Strangers", because that would influence the faces recognition algorithm. Ignoring a face tells Photos that it is a face, but you do not want it to be recognized.

I ignore the faces strip completely and name the faces by browsing the faces enlarged. If a face is marked, that I don't care for, I click the "x", if a face is marked that I want to keep, I type a name into the name field. The advantage is, that I am seeing the faces in the context of the full photo this way - and I know when and where the photo has been taken. It is much easier to remember the names of people, if I start from a certain moment.

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The way to avoid this mess, is to perform this task at steady intervals, so you don't accumulate too many new "unidentified" and "need-confirming" faces at any one time.

That is the theory - but impossible with iCloud Photo Library. 😟

After I enabled iCloud Photo Library on four Macs, I have my main Photos library synced to the three other macs, and I have to weed out the unnamed faces from forty-thousand photos on all three other macs, because the faces albums don't sync with iCloud. There is no way to sync an exiting library in easy stages with iCloud, moment for moment. The strip with thousands of unnamed faces is completely random with unrelated faces side by side.

You're welcome 🙂

.... because the faces albums don't sync with iCloud. There is no way to sync an exiting library in easy stages with iCloud, moment for moment.

Good point. I'm aware of this, but since I have only one Mac as my "main" library it doesn't affect me, so I didn't think of it.

File your complaint here:

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

I'll re-file my bug report as well. Mac OS X 10.12 and iOS 10? Hope springs eternal...