Photos seems to not be scanning for faces. How can I force this?

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xashafrsl Author

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Photos seems to not be scanning for faces. How can I force this?

MacBook Pro (13-inch Early 2011), iOS 10.3.2

Posted on Jan 17, 2018 7:08 AM

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Answer 1

léonie

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Jan 17, 2018 8:07 AM in response to xashafrsl

Photos is scanning for faces when you import the photo to Photos. It scans the photo once and never again, unless you retouch a photo and modify parts of a photo where faces had been detected.

Or, if you reset the face detection completely, but then you will have to start over and reassign all already named faces again. That is very wasteful, see: léonie: How to Reset the Named People Album in Photos on High Sierra and iOS 11

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LarryHN

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Jan 17, 2018 7:45 AM in response to xashafrsl

You can not start or stop face/object scanning - it is totally automatic - patience is usually the answer - why do you think it is not scanning faces?

LN

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xashafrsl Author

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Jan 17, 2018 11:57 AM in response to LarryHN

Thank you for your reply. I have left Photos running in the background for the whole day and it hasn't progressed at all, which made me think something has gone wrong. I have recently migrated from iPhoto to Photos.

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xashafrsl Author

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Jan 17, 2018 11:59 AM in response to léonie

Thank you for your reply - it's very informative. Will try the reset and see how it goes.

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