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Tap on a face to see all of their associated photos. "Photos" continues to scan 1,260 remaining photos when you are not using the app and your Mac is plugged in to a power outlet.Maybe the option to select and scan specific photos, even.Again it is automatic and when you import new photos they will be scanned in the background - Patience is a virtueThe tip with the smart list did unfortunately not work as I do not use iCloud Photo Library, so the album is empty.Have you checked, if your Photos Library contains media items that cannot be processed by Photos? "photosanalysisd" is still running because it is a demon process, but I do not see any related messages in the Console app.But it stopped somehow near the end of it because it since then displays this message when I select the Persons/Faces album (translated from my language to English, so it might be slightly different in English):This is what is already happening as my iMac is running significant amounts of time during the day for a couple of weeks now. Groups also merge if you give them the same name.Want to see even more People in your album? If this album is not empty, save the items outside your Photos Library and then remove them from the library.As far as I can tell, all my videos had been scanned already, so they are most likely not the reason why the scan is stuck.I hope you found the culprit with the missing video.There’s more to the conversationAt the moment you have to quit Photos after the import and then wait an indeterminate time, periodically opening Photos to see if it has completed scanning.Do you have videos in your Photos Library? Mark the People that you access the most as a Favorite so that it's easier to find them in the future.Photos organizes the images of your family and friends in your People album. You'll see a face thumbnail for each person your device recognizes. So it is good, that the album is empty.Is there a way to force the Photos app to either continue the scan or force it to do a full rescan?I would also like to see the ability to force a scan, for example after importing some new photos.You are right, I did not know that also videos are scanned. Place your document in view of the camera on your device. Just open a photo of someone that you want to add, then swipe up to see a thumbnail of that person under People. Unfortunately, if there is no "force scan" option or the bug is not fixed by apple to complete facial scans in a timely fashion, then the best thing for Mac users to do is to resort to using another product. Picasa scanned all of my photos and in little time. But in the Consolde.app I could see, that the photosanalysisd process was still running and making progress.All of my videos have been scanned for faces. Open the Photos app and go to the “Albums” tab.
Tap Next. : I am using an iMac (no laptop) and I am running on macOS 10.12.2. How to scan photographs using your iPhone Open Notes and start a new Note. Tap the People album. Open the Photos app. Swipe down on this page until you see the “People and Places” section. Drag …
These might be holding up the show.Also had the same problem. If the app has found that person's face in any other photos, it shows them to you. Confirm the photos that you want to associate with the name, then tap Done.Photos automatically assigns a face thumbnail for each person it recognizes. I hope to run into fewer bugs in the future.Give is more time with the Photos application not running, the computer awake adn powered - you can not control the scan but it so=hould complete slowlyIs "photosanalysisd" still running?A good indicator for incompatible items is a smart album with the single rule "Photo is unable to upload to iCloud Photo Library". This might be the root cause of the stuck issue, although it was only a handful of items.You can launch the Console.app from the Utilities folder in the Applications folder. Type "photos" into the search field and click "Diagnostic messages" in the sidebar.Upgrading to the latest macOS version did not fix it although the Photos app did upgrade the library.Photos is optional and if you do not like it then do not use it - but the fact that it does not meet your personal dream of how it should is not a bugP.S. You can also tap the person's thumbnail, scroll to the bottom of the screen, then tap Favorite This Person. iPhoto was regularly updated and from time to time re-scaning pictures for faces would bring more faces. Tap Show Faces to focus on just the person’s face in each photo. Bugs me (no pun intended) that I cannot use an Apple app product on their hardware without issues (not the 1st time). Here, tap on the “People” album. I guess iPhones bugs trump all others. If you need to manually capture a scan, tap or one of the Volume buttons. Sometimes, the same person is identified in more than one group. I've been waiting about 6 months.After upgrading to macOS Sierra a couple of weeks ago, the Photos app did rescan my whole photo library for faces.It is not necessary to be using iCloud Photo Library for this test. You can give names to faces, mark your favorites, and explore all the photos that a person appears in.Favorite any additional people that you want to easily access. To merge all of the photos under one group, tap Select, then tap all of the thumbnails that show the same person.