The circles will only show, if you enable “Show faces names” in the “View” menu.

If Photos found a face or you added a face manually, you will see a circle around the detected face.

Just type a name into the text field below the circle around a face and it will add a new person to the People album. If you want to add an additional person, start from a photo showing this person. Photos will at first only add a few faces to the People album to get you started, faces of people that are occurring frequently in your photos.

The album of all unidentified faces is no longer there. Not sure where the unidentified faces are and how to access them. Since upgrading to High Sierra, there is no “Add +” button anymore in the People view in Photos, at least not on my laptop. That will change and improve the face recognition algorithm again and may detect more faces than already have been recognized. You could wait for the High Sierra upgrade. Since I have over 50K photos, I hope there is a way to force a rescan that is less effort than moving around 50GB of data.Īre you sure that Photos has already finished the faces scan?įor 50k photos it can take several weeks to complete the initial scan. Previously iPhoto would rescan and find most of the missing faces. This I have read however many of my photos have unrecognized faces in them. Photos will scan all photos for faces exactly onceįor feature requests tell Apple what you want – Product Feedback – Apple No as Léonie answered (very clearly IMHO) I hope there is a way to force a rescan that is less effort than moving around 50GB of data. If Photos has found additional faces of the person, it will prompt you to confirm them. Or click the album of a named person to ope it.

This will let you select recognized faces to add to the People Album and to name.

You will see all newly recognized faces in Photos, if you open the People album and click the “Add +” button at the bottom of the People album. Photos will scan all photos for faces exactly once – when you first import them to photos.This scanning happens in the background and only, when you are not using Photos.

I recently downloaded all my high resolution photos to my iMac and would like to have it rescan for faces and prompt me for the name. IMac with Retina 5K display, macOS Sierra (10.12.4), Photos application I have 50 GB of photos so manual effort is not preferred. I would like the old feature back or a suggested work around. IPhoto used to have an option to (re)scan for missing photos.

Apple photos find unnamed faces