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Q: Is there any easy way to remove Faces metadata?

I won't get into my frustrations of moving from iPhoto to Photos, but it brought over with it a bunch of inaccurately marked faces. Is there any easy way to remove all the faces metadata from all my photos so I can start from scratch? Thanks

Posted on Jun 27, 2016 9:22 AM

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  • by LarryHN,

    LarryHN LarryHN Jun 27, 2016 9:52 AM in response to kuduboet
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    Jun 27, 2016 9:52 AM in response to kuduboet

    no

     

    You can tell Apple what you need for inclusion in future versions - http://www.apple.com/feedback/photos.html

     

    (and of course inaccurate iPhoto identification has nothing at all to do with Photos)

     

    As to frustrations - the solution to that is to take the time to learn to use Photos - it is  a new and different program that, like all new software, does not operate exactly like pref=vious software and PHotos does have a learning curve - until you take the time to learn how to use it you will continue to be frustrated as you will be with any new product tha tyou do not understand

     

    LN

  • by kuduboet,

    kuduboet kuduboet Jun 27, 2016 9:59 AM in response to LarryHN
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    Jun 27, 2016 9:59 AM in response to LarryHN

    Thanks Larry, my frustration isn't with Photos and I have spent a lot of time using it and am very comfortable with it, my frustration came from the migration process where it created duplicate libraries etc. I have that all resolved, did it a while ago, it was just a very "un-Apple" experience at the time.

     

    I do have another issue perhaps you can shed some light on If I put in my daughter's name in the search, I get a photo of my son from before my daughter was even born. The faces for the photo are clearly identified as my son, so I can find no reason why that image would show up under her name, any ideas where to look? Thanks.

  • by léonie,Solvedanswer

    léonie léonie Jun 27, 2016 11:01 AM in response to kuduboet
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    Jun 27, 2016 11:01 AM in response to kuduboet

    Can you tell us more about the libraries you migrated to Photos?  You said you migrated iPhoto libraries - did you perhaps also use Aperture?  If you opened your iPhoto libraries in Aperture you may have written metadata into the original image files.  Then nothing you can do in Photos can remove the wrong tags, since they will be stored with the original files.

     

    Photos has no built-in tool to start over with the face recognition.

     

    There is no way to delete all recognized faces at once.

     

    The problem is, that Photos is scanning for faces only once, when you import the photos.

     

    If you delete the faces circle from a photo, Photos will not scan that photo again, unless you reimport it. You would have to manually add faces circles, but the manually added faces will not be used for the face recognition.

     

    What you could do, but it would be a lot of work:   open the faces album and delete all names from the name tags below each faces tile. That should move the named faces thumbnails back to the row of suggested faces and you can start over,

     

    You could wait with this major reorganization for the macOS Sierra release coming this fall.  As you could see during the WWDC 2016 presentation, The faces albums will be completely redesigned. Labelling faces will probably easier with the next release.

  • by kuduboet,

    kuduboet kuduboet Jun 27, 2016 11:46 AM in response to léonie
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    Jun 27, 2016 11:46 AM in response to léonie

    Thanks, I didn't user Aperture I think it is Faces from before when they photos were in iPhoto. I already considered waiting for macOS Sierra and that is what I will probably do, just thought I would aks if there was anything easy in the meantime so I could do cleanup before the next version. Thanks for the help, appreciate it.

  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie Jun 27, 2016 11:55 AM in response to kuduboet
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    Jun 27, 2016 11:55 AM in response to kuduboet

    You're welcome