People album iOS 10

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People album iOS 10

so I've spend hours organising (naming, merging etc) faces in the new iOS 10 "people" album. I love being able to quickly find photos of my friends or group of them...

firstly i understand and that this data is kept on each individual devices and not synced to iCloud photo gallery (which is a big downside) but yesterday after restoring my iphones backup to my new shiny iPhone 7 I was surprised that all my names and merges are gone.

Are people not stored even in device backup?? People Feature sounds pointless if needs to be re-done each time one gets a new device...

Posted on Sep 17, 2016 2:07 AM

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Answer 1

zecanard

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Sep 17, 2016 10:05 PM in response to DanInDub

They’re also completely different based on which device you’re using. I use iCloud Photo Library, so my iPad, iPhone and iMac all have exactly the same photos. But my iPad and iPhone (and soon, my iMac) show different people, with different photo counts for each recognized person. I’m not going to bother with this until it gets fixed and all my devices start showing the same information.

What I especially don’t understand is that Faces from Photos for macOS already gets synced to iOS devices (not in a visible album, but you can Search for those faces). But for some reason Faces simply got scrapped for a half-baked feature…

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Answer 2

Sep 22, 2016 8:18 AM in response to zecanard

Agreed... I don't see the point in putting in the time to organise people if the data doesn't sync between devices.

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DanInDub Author

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Sep 23, 2016 2:39 AM in response to mac_n_cheese69

It's not even sync that I've problem with. It's the fact that the result isn't even included in iCloud backup (in the way your Health data are, for example) 😟 which means there's no way of moving this into your new phone... :/

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