Google Photos has had automatic face tagging or the ability to locate and recognize faces in a photo and add a tag to that face naming the individual. Until recently, though, Google Photos would not allow you to tag a face that was not recognized or mislabeled.
What is face recognition in Google Photos?
Face Recognition is one of the coolest features of Google Photos. It allows the software to pick up on faces in your images, tag people, and give you the option to search for photos by the person’s name.
You could be thinking “How do you identify a face on Google Photos?”
Sit, swipe, and have conversations about the faces that are recognized. This is about more than the identification of images, it’s an opportunity to tell stories and archive memories. In google photos, Enter stories as descriptions and, as faces are identified, give google photo’s a name for that face in your database of old family photographs.
When you turn off Face Recognition, the software removes all the face models, groups, and labels/names you’ve created. If you’re using the latest version of the Google Photos app in the US, there shouldn’t be any problem with Face Recognition.
It can take up to 24 hours for Google’s automatic facial recognition to begin isolating, linking, and grouping individual’s faces in your photos. You’ll also need to make sure that your settings for identifying and grouping faces are turned on in google photos. Right away, this first step identified new photos of familiar faces.
While we were writing we ran into the question “Is it possible to get a selection of faces from Google Photos?”.
Unfortunately, there is no such option in Google Photos that would allow enabling/running additional face recognition on chosen images. You should also note that this is just a mare residue of an experimental feature of already discontinued Google +. Show activity on this post. You will get a selection of faces from your Google Photos.
Why can’t I See my Face in Google Photos?
If you don’t have the facial recognition feature on your Google Photos, you will need to enable it first. Due to increasingly strict privacy laws, facial recognition within Google Photos is not allowed in every country. Users from the US have the feature by default, but users from many other countries can’t use it at all.
What is Google Photos and how does it work?
Google Photos, like Facebook or Apple Photos, has built-in facial recognition and the software can automatically organize your photos based on people’s faces.