How to view all unnamed faces

As a possible workaround

Set up a smart album with person contains <letter>

1. Create a smart album
2. Create a rule for "Person" -> "does not include" -> "a"
3. Repeat for each letter of the alphabet
4. Add a rule for photos tagged with some phrase that allows you to exclude them, I created and used a tag called "No People" and assigned it to photos that didn't have any people in them so they didn't show up.

There's a screenshot of my rule below. One drawback of this approach is it will exclude photos with multiple people in them if any of the people are named, I have approx 40 000 photos in my library and the smart album opens in less than 1 second.

Alternate approach

1. Create a normal album and call it something like "Named"
2. Select "People" album in the sidebar, and then select all
3. Drag the selected people into the "Named" album
4. Create a smart album with a rule "Album" -> "is not" -> "Named".

This will be quicker initially than the first option above, but with the drawback that you'll need to recreate the "Named" album once you've assigned names to the photos in the smart album, whereas the first option takes more time to set up initially but will then be a smart album without a static element that needs manual updating.

Hope this helps, and let's hope apple addresses this functionality deficit soon.

Photos 3.0 does not give you access to a list of unnamed faces.

You are supposed to start from the People album.

• Open the album for each person and click "Confirm additional faces" to add more faces of this person.
• If a person does not yet have a people album, use one of the photos of this person to type a name below the faces circle. After that you can use "Confirm additional faces", starting from the album.

Correct. My workaround for that is to review those, and tag the photos that actually don't have any faces in them with a specific keyword ("No Faces"). Then update the rules for the smart album to add a criterion "Key Word is not No Faces"

This only works if Photos gives you the right choices and tags your person in the photo. I often can see the person I am trying to tag in the photo but a different person is highlighted. Photos won't let you adjust the highlight. That would make things so much easier. Also, being able to see photos with Unnamed people in them would be extremely helpful. Finally, I've noticed you can't delete Unnamed rings on the photo you don't want to use. There is no X. It seems that Photos is going backwards instead of forward. They are making the application useless. Does anyone know a better photos package that does all of this well? I'd be willing to switch.

This is a clever workaround but I really wish the developers would listen to customers and make the application functional. The latest version of Photos got worse. I'd take iPhoto over it these days.

This is beyond annoying, why did they delete this feature?

My guess is, that Apple removed the list of unnamed faces in High Sierra, because it is totally unusable in a large library, now that we can no longer delete the faces that we do not want. Previously, in Photos 1 and 2, the list of unnamed faces has been nice and easy to use. We could prune it and keep it small by deleting all automatically detected faces that were no faces at all are the faxes of unknown strangers.

After the update to macOS 10.12.5, when Apple removed the ability to delete any automatically detected faces, my library with roughly 50000 photos had a list of more than 15000 unnamed faces, and 99% of them were faces that were of no interest to me. It was nearly impossible to find the few faces that I wanted to name in this horrible list. like seeking a needle in a haystack.

As long as Apple does no longer allow us to remove the faces we do not care about, there is no point in offering a list of unnamed faces, at least not for the whole library.

Smart Album and criteria "Face is not %" Since this is SQL the % works as a wildcard.

Credit to a 2015 Apple support forum post

Thanks. But I suppose it would exclude a photo that has both named and unnamed faces.

Yes - as indicated in the “One drawback...” in my post.

Assuming all names have a vowel, you could probably just do a-e-i-o-u-y, I'm thinking.

In my test this does not show just photos with un-named faces - it shows all photos with no faces and un-named faces

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This is beyond annoying, why did they delete this feature?

I don't get it apple....