Q: Create a Keyboard Shortcut in Mac Photos
I want to create a keyboard shortcut for showing and hiding faces. I searched to make sure that the key combination I wanted to assign wasn't being used by anything else in Photos. Here's what I did:
System Preferences>Keyboard>Shortcuts>App Shortcuts
I selected the Photos app (i.e., NOT all applications)
Click Add
For Menu Title, I entered "Hide Face Names", which is the exact menu item under 'View'
Assign my key combination (I tried command-h, option-h, command-option-h, command-shift-h, etc.
I did the same thing for 'Show Face Names", of course using a different key combination
It worked only the very first time I used it. After that, it either just chirped an error sound at me, or went to some random menu.
Is it because the the menu item is a toggle? By that I mean that, once I use the shortcut to hide the face names, that menu item disappears from the menu, being replaced by show faces.
Note that, if I first click on the top-level View menu, usually either shortcut would work.
Thanks for your help.
Macbook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.2)
Posted on Jun 16, 2016 2:37 PM
I used the same keyboard shortcut for both entries: "Hide Face Names ⇧⌘H" and "Show Face Names ⇧⌘H, since both menu entries can only be shown alternately.
And this is working reliably for me on OS X 10.11.5 and Photos 1.5.
Posted on Jun 19, 2016 5:17 AM
