You may have noticed that my lovely face appears in two locations in the suggested people page we just looked it. Now that we’ve created a single entry, let’s look at merging entries.

If it has already pooled a bunch of related photos together, it’s far faster to say “Yes, those additional 120 photos are also Steve” than to sit there and click “Yes” repeatedly. In our testing, the app never suggested a photo that wasn’t the person in question, but it was kind of tedious to sit there and click “Yes” over and over again. Once you’ve created an entry for a name, you can also scroll down to the bottom of the entry and look for the “Confirm Additional Photos” link to add additional photos.Įvery photo is simply a “Yes” or “No” selection. (Though Apple may make this useful in the future.) And, as an aside, remember that all the facial recognition and tagging is done on the phone, and adding a friend’s contact information here doesn’t link the photos on your phone to some Apple database. As it stands now, it’s just a form of helpful auto-fill that suggests names based on your contacts. There are no additional features if you use an actual contact entry, such as the ability to see a person’s photos if you look at their contact in your contact list. To access it open up the Photos app and then locate and select the “Albums” icon at the bottom of the screen. While the new feature might be called “Recognized Faces”, the implementation of the feature in the Photos app is actually tucked away in the “People” album.

With all that in mind, the recognized faces feature needs a little input and attention from you to really shine, so let’s dive right in. It also means the facial processing works even if you’re offline. For the privacy conscious who want the usefulness of facial recognition but aren’t so keen on Apple processing all your friends’ faces, this is a welcome change. All facial recognition processing happens on your iPhone or iPad, rather than being sent to Apple’s servers. Unlike the recognition technology you might be used to on Facebook or Google Photos, the iOS 10 recognition system is totally local. RELATED: How to Unlock Your iOS 10 Device With a Single Click (Like in iOS 9) The Photos app will now analyze all the faces in the photos you take with your iOS device and group them together based on faces. Among those stealthy-but-fantastic new features is an update to the Photos app that brings facial recognition technology, dubbed “Recognized Faces”, right to your iOS device. IOS 10 has a slew of new features, many of which are pretty well hidden away if you’re not actively scouting for them. Recognized Faces: Local Face Recognition On Your iPhone

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