Find People and Pets

Photos performs billions of computations on every photo to analyze its contents. While Photos is good at recognizing faces, it doesn’t know how to put names to those faces. You’ll need to do some work in the People & Pets view (Figure 44), located in the sidebar on a Mac or iPad and in the People, Pets & Places section of the Albums view on an iPhone, to teach Photos who’s who.

Figure 44: The People & Pets view is a catalog of familiar faces, and it’s where you teach Photos who is who.
Figure 44: The People & Pets view is a catalog of familiar faces, and it’s where you teach Photos who is who.

Find Items Containing a Person or Pet

The People & Pets view contains all the faces Photos has identified and connected to a name. If you ...

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