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I have recently realized that my phone very rarely recognizes that my son’s face is a face in photos (not that it doesn’t know it’s him, it doesn’t recognize that there is a face in the photo at all). My theory is that his face is not symmetrical enough due to his cleft lip and palate surgery and some scar tissue that makes his nose crooked. Does anyone know if that might be the case? Also, how can I tag him in the photo anyway?
iPhone 7, iOS 15
Face recognition seems like pretty crazy stuff-- I'm not sure how they do it, but it's got to be something like the ratio eye separation to nose length and ear size, or something geometric like that. So twins can probably never be separated, and some people may not fit the algorithm. On the other hand, my favorite face ID is from my front lawn:
Unfortunately, even though we can do it on the Mac, in iOS and iPadOS, there's no way to add a face that the AI doesn't recognize.
On the other hand, Face ID is pretty flaky, anyway, and IDs may not survive OS changes-- and they certainly don't export with picture files. What you can do is include the person's name in the Caption field. Then this picture will show up, along with all the ones in the Person album, when you do a search. To make searching work, you need to have the name come at the beginning of the caption. Captions export with the picture and survive OSs. I include the name in the caption for every picture that has a recognized face, as well as for un-recognized faces.
Thank you for replying and letting me know that I can’t manually tag people in photos (other than captions). Interestingly, right after reading your comment I downloaded the newest update (18.1.1) and my son is now tagged in almost all of my photos!
Erica_R_C wrote:…my son is now tagged in almost all of my photos!
That is so cool! I'm really glad you let me know!
Facial symmetry in photos
