2 mixed up faces in Photos - how to "unlearn" one?

I have by accident confirmed a wrong person's face (person B) to another person's collection (person A). Now a half of the photos are of person A and another half of B. They are not at all similar (a man and a woman).


Now, I know the "This is not XY" feature where you can select a face on a specific photo to remove it from a collection. But I have literally hundreds of photos of the wrong person B now in the person's A collection. I tried to remove two dozens of them like that, selecting multiple and choosing "These are not person A" but it doesn't remove other of person B.


Is there a way to fully remove, ie "unlearn" a person's face from the people collections and start learning them from scratch again? Or do I have to spend hours manually untagging all the wrong photos of person B in persons A collection?


I tried to Remove this person on person A but it only hides it from the People collections, the face stays recognized in photos.


Please help! Thx Martin

MacBook Pro TouchBar and Touch ID, macOS Mojave (10.14.1)

Posted on Nov 3, 2018 11:14 AM

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Nov 3, 2018 11:46 AM in response to aomartinao

Is there a way to fully remove, ie "unlearn" a person's face from the people collections and start learning them from scratch again?

I would restore the Photos Library from the last backup you made before you merged the to people. Do you have a Time Machine backup?

This will work, unless you are using iCloud Photos and the merged people have synced to iCloud. If you are using iCloud Photo Library, restoring the library from a backup will not help.

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