After the Photos upgrade to 3.0 a while back, I lost many of the Faces I had identified. My face only shows 65 photos now while I had tagged over 2300, most of which I had found with faces prior to the Photos upgrade. I also do not like the way it switched zooming in on slides when I select People. I just want to see all the photos with that face. Is there a way to fix this?
Paul
Photos 3.0 is using a new and improved algorithm for the face recognition. So it has scanned all photos again for faces. It will initially only show a few selected people in the People album. It will start by showing only those persons, that it could identify as the same person in at least 15 photos. The other recognized faces will not appear in the People album. You can add the other recognized faces manually. Find a photo of a person you want to add to the People album, swipe up to reveal the details below the photo and click on the thumbnail in the People section below the photo. This will open the album for this person and add it to the people album from the commands at the bottom of the album.
The changed handling of faces is described here: Find and identify photos of people using Photos on Mac - Apple Support
Photos 3.0 is using a new and improved algorithm for the face recognition. So it has scanned all photos again for faces. It will initially only show a few selected people in the People album. It will start by showing only those persons, that it could identify as the same person in at least 15 photos. The other recognized faces will not appear in the People album. You can add the other recognized faces manually. Find a photo of a person you want to add to the People album, swipe up to reveal the details below the photo and click on the thumbnail in the People section below the photo. This will open the album for this person and add it to the people album from the commands at the bottom of the album.
The changed handling of faces is described here: Find and identify photos of people using Photos on Mac - Apple Support
I must be missing something. When I show face names, I can see that they are named. When I go to that person's album, it is missing. When I swipe up, I see the People face you showed me in the image, but when I click on that nothing happens. When I double click on that it opens the album but that picture is not there. Scrolling to the bottom, I see confirm additional photos and it opens, repeatedly, two photos that I say "no" to.
Interestingly there are several other "albums" of the same person with the same name with no photos in them which states: "updating [name]... People will finish updating when Photos is in the background." But I see no activity. I have left it running overnight several times but things do not seem to update.
Thank you for responding to me and trying to help me out. I really appreciate it. Still feeling quite frustrated, though.
When I swipe up, I see the People face you showed me in the image, but when I click on that nothing happens. When I double click on that it opens the album but that picture is not there.
The picture is not there? You clicked the button "Show More" below the top picture in the album to ensure, that all photos will be displayed? If a photo has not been hidden, it should be showing in the People album. But if a phot has been hidden, it does not show in the people album, even if it has been named.
Sheesh! Are you kidding me? The many hours I spent on 35,000 photos identifying faces I will have to do all over again? Tell me that is not the case!
Since I tagged many of the faces of family (2K of some members since 1952) can I select the group, select all and swipe up for the group? What if there are multiple faces?
Bingo! All photos are there. I thought that the string of photos below would have listed all the photos in the album but "Showing more" shows all 2.2K of them. Thanks so much!
One last question: I do not see an option of "solved" below your answer. Only "Helpful" that is grey. I want to give you credit for helping me. Is there a way I can do that?
I do not see an option of "solved" below your answer
You can only click "Solved"once for each discussion, and you used that already up.
But do not worry, the important thing is, that we found the solution 🙂
You're welcome !
I feel your pain! Time well spent...*eyeroll* thanks, Apple!
Photos will have detected most of the faces again, and already recognized many faces of most of the people as the same person. It is just not adding them to the People album all at once.
There is one big difference between the previous version of Photos and Photos 3.0: In the previous versions we could reject automatically detected faces (faces of strangers in the background, paintings on the wall, no face at all), but this is no longer possible in Photos 3.0. Photos 3.0 is keeping each and every automatically detected face around, and so we have to be selective and add only the faces of the persons we want to the People album. That is the reason why Photos is starting only with a few, frequently detected faces to initialize the People album.
The many hours I spent on 35,000 photos identifying faces I will have to do all over again? Tell me that is not the case!
Not all faces were named any longer, when I upgraded to High Sierra. And most of the manually added faces were missing.
My library is a bit larger, but it took me not long to confirm the faces again. For most of them existed already albums and I had just to step through the "confirm additional faces" routine. But I had taken the precaution to add keywords with the names of the persons to all photos in each people album, before I migrated the Photos Library to High Sierra. That made it very easy to search for one photo of each person to get the people album names again.
Photos not showing all photos in People
