maxeym
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Q: Ignore faces in photos for macOS Sierra

I have got a lot of photos with crowds in the background. The photos app is recognising all those faces (a couple of thousand). Is there a fast way to permanently ignore them?

MacBook Pro (13-inch Early 2011), macOS Sierra (10.12)

Posted on Sep 22, 2016 11:58 PM

by léonie,Solvedanswer
léonie léonie
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There is no  "ignore" for people. You can either just let them sit around in the "add people" section of the people album or add them all at once, then select them all and hide them. but hiding people will also exclude all photos of this person from the memories. If the offending people are in the background of a photo  you want to use in memories you may not want to hide the person.

 

if you use brute force and delete the circle with the detected face from a photo, you will be left with white, empty faces thumbnails in the People album.  I did this nevertheless and clicked the X on the faces circle to delete the detected face. Then I merged all white thumbnails into one big person album "delete" and are hoping for a bug fix in a later version to get rid of the white thumbnails. Repairing the Photos Library does not fix this.

Posted on Sep 23, 2016 12:38 AM

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  • by léonie,Solvedanswer

    léonie léonie Sep 23, 2016 12:38 AM in response to maxeym
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    Sep 23, 2016 12:38 AM in response to maxeym

    There is no  "ignore" for people. You can either just let them sit around in the "add people" section of the people album or add them all at once, then select them all and hide them. but hiding people will also exclude all photos of this person from the memories. If the offending people are in the background of a photo  you want to use in memories you may not want to hide the person.

     

    if you use brute force and delete the circle with the detected face from a photo, you will be left with white, empty faces thumbnails in the People album.  I did this nevertheless and clicked the X on the faces circle to delete the detected face. Then I merged all white thumbnails into one big person album "delete" and are hoping for a bug fix in a later version to get rid of the white thumbnails. Repairing the Photos Library does not fix this.

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    léonie léonie Sep 23, 2016 2:37 AM in response to maxeym
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    Sep 23, 2016 2:37 AM in response to maxeym

    I forgot - you may want to send a feature request to Apple to make it easier to remove the faces of crowds of strangers from the list of detected persons. That part of the new people feature definitely needs improving.

    You can use the feedback form:  Feedback - Photos - Apple