If you name a face, but it does not turn up in the album for the person in the People album, click the faces icon in the Info for the photo to open the people album. Try to name a few faces from different years, so it will be more likely to encounter the faces that may be in other people albums with faces of the same person. But the additional albums for the person may still be hidden. There may be several albums for the same person that need merging. So, has anyone found a way to get face scanning to work?Ī common reason for Photos failing to fill in the missing names is, that it may have recognized the person as more than one person. In iPhoto when I manually tagged people it would rescan similar photos and suggest more matches. It seems this functionality is actually worse in Photos than it was in iPhoto. This way I could leave my library open over night and it should be able to eventually scan all of the photos. it might be worth having a mode that draws heavily on the processor to crank through scanning photos. in the background while photos is running and 2. We need a force scan switch that will work in two ways: 1. I am convinced this will never work in any meaningful way, unless Apple addresses this. Well I did reset it and after a week or two my Photos Library has scanned 156 photos our of 76,109 photos. I have read some of the responses to previous posts and it seems photos only attempts to scan incoming photos and you must reset it to start over.

The problem is Photos is absolutely terrible at scanning faces. I have numerous Photos libraries and all of them were updated to Photos from iPhoto.

Apple photos rescan for faces