I've started using Faces in Photos to ID people. Initially the Suggestions bar at the bottom had many useful faces, but now it is full of unimportant ones (random people in crowd shots, statues, paintings, etc.). Is there a way to dismiss the suggestions? Something like 'Don't show me this again'?
iMac, iOS 10
You can hide these faces and they will be collected in the "Hidden People" section of the Peoples album.
What I would not do right now is to delete the faces circle.
When you enlarge a photo and enable "Show Face Names" in the View menu, you will see the unnamed faces overlaid on the photo. The circle has an "x" and when you click this, the face will be deleted. But there is a glitch. The album of this person will now show with a blank white thumbnail and is not fully deleted. I'd wait for a bug fix, before you delete faces this way.
For the time being, I'd simply hide the unwanted faces of strangers in a crowd.
https://help.apple.com/photos/mac/1.2/?lang=en#/phtad9d981ab
Hide all photos of a person in the People album
You can hide all photos of a person in the People album.
- Click People under Albums in the sidebar.
- Control-click the person, then choose Hide This Person.
The photos are hidden from the People album, but not removed from your library. To show a hidden person in the People album again, scroll down and click Show Hidden People, Control-click the person you want to show, then choose Unhide This Person.
Oh, I figured it out myself. If I right-click on a face in the suggestions row, a choice pops up to 'Ignore this face'. Just what I was looking for.
If you are still seeing "Ignore this face", you are using Photo 1.x on Yosemite or El Capitan? The new Photos.app on Sierra has no longer this option. Since you did not mention the system version, I assumed you're running the current version of macOS with the new Photos 2.0, sorry.
In Photos 1.5 on El Capitan you can select a range of photos from the strip of unnamed faces below the Faces album and use the delete key to delete them.
Can I delete unimportant Faces suggestions?
