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My wife is extremely diligent at going through her photos and putting names on them. Yet she frequently finds that when she comes back to that photo a week or two later she has to redo the name. Other metadata seems to stay but the names disappear. The same seems to happen whether she uses her phone or her Mac. Any ideas as to how to stop this?
The faces names can vanish for several reasons:
Because named faces may vanish I am trying to save all names by adding the name of the people also as a keyword to a photo. The keywords are much more stable and I can use then to check with smart albums for missing names. See: How to use Keywords to Back Up the Named Faces in Photos and Improve the Search for People … - Apple Community
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The faces names can vanish for several reasons:
Because named faces may vanish I am trying to save all names by adding the name of the people also as a keyword to a photo. The keywords are much more stable and I can use then to check with smart albums for missing names. See: How to use Keywords to Back Up the Named Faces in Photos and Improve the Search for People … - Apple Community
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What Photos version is she using?
Where is the library located? If on an external drive what kind is it and how is it formatted?
Where is she entering the names: via Keywords, in the Title field or the Caption field?
Léonie's reply reminded me of what she taught me as a backup to "faces".
1 - periodically I go into the People section of my library and click on each person.
2 - if there's an "additional photos for review" appearing I click on it and review the additional photos.
3 - when done reviewing I click on the Show More link to bring up all of the photos with that person in it.
4 - I do a ⌘+A (select all) and bring up the Keyword window (⌘+K). I add that person's name to the keywords and apply it to all of the selected photos as a batch.
I do this for each person. Since keywords don't have an algorithm that is changed it's a great backup for faces. Create a Smart Album with the criteria "Keyword is xxxxx" and you have an album of all the photos with that person in them.
If you want to find all of the photos with xxxxx and yyyyy in them create a smart album like this:
This can be good insurance against the missing faces in People.
As per the request from Old Toad. Her iPhone is a 14 with the IOS up to date and the Mac is the latest Mac mini running the last version of Ventura. The photos library is on the iCloud with a copy automatically downloaded to the Mac mini hard drive. This irritating behaviour has been continuous through many iterations of iOS and MacOS , was first observed on her old iMac which we replaced last year
Names are being added using the standard Apple names functionality on photos. Other metadata is unaffected so my presumption is that this is a byproduct of Apple’s auto face recognition process
Using the face recognition function to label people and then adding faces when photos doesn’t pick them up . So far as I can see this is neither a caption nor a keyword but a separate category of metadata
That's a whole different ball game. Did you always use iCloud Library with your Photos library?
Have you installed and run any "cleaning", "optimizing", "speed-up", anti-virus or VPN apps on your Mac?
Where is she entering the names: via Keywords, in the Title field or the Caption field? Where?
Apple photos keeps removing names
