Photos app keeps rescanning, deletes names

No, I'm just plugging it into a wall outlet. BTW the same is happening on my iPad (also iOS 11.0.3). Since I don't use iCloud Photo Library, both devices (as well as my Mac running High Sierra 10.13) have independent People albums which do not synchronize either with each other or with the one on my Mac. I can live with that, but I just wish the scanning wouldn't keep restarting each time I charge either device.

Yes, it did happen after last week's update (to 11.0.3). But since then I've repeated the renaming/re-keyphoto-ing process a couple of times (including just since I first posted this discussion less than an hour ago), and each time I plug my iPhone in and it auto-locks (after 5 minutes), the People album resets again.

My own thought is that there's a separate album called People from My Mac, containing virtually the same photos but which was done in the Photos application on the Mac, under earlier Mac OS versions, using Faces. I've used iTunes in the past to transfer this album (and others) to my iPhone, long before iOS 11 came along. I'm wondering if that Mac People album is confusing the iOS People album. Unfortunately, there would be no way to delete the Mac People album now, unless I re-synced with iTunes and unchecked "Sync Photos" altogether.

Wow... thanks so much! The only thing worse than wrestling with issues like this is the dread that no one else is experiencing them, LOL. I haven't been able to determine *how* long is "long enough" for a recharge to perform its reset/rescan of the People album. Ten minutes sometimes does it, and sometimes not. The other thing I've noticed is the same 15 people automatically popping up in the iOS People album, but never any more (unless I manually add them)... even though the "People from my Mac" album lists over 100 that I've identified as Faces in the past. Obviously, the older album is not "talking to" the newer one at all.