When searching for photos in the new Google Photos app, the facial recognition feature culls together a directory of different people to allow you to search your photos by individuals. Currently, you can only remove batches of photos from the person's search results, but not their record altogether unless you delete all the photos. Any ideas?
Google Photos – How to Remove Someone from People Results
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It is possible to enable it by dialling into a US VPN (or going to the USA) and enabling the feature.
I found out about it from here: https://www.reddit.com/r/androidapps/comments/37uepw/is_face_recognition_in_the_new_google_photos_app/
On Android, you can download a VPN client and run all of the device communication through the VPN.
On iOS, nute (the OP) travelled to the USA and enabled it there, so I can't currently confirm if the VPN settings work on iOS.
Instructions:
Android
- Download the app "Psiphon" and activate it to a US VPN.
- Go to the Android Settings > Applications > Downloaded > Photos.
- Hit the "clear data" button (this just clears the local app's data, not photos).
- Sign into Photos (it should take you through the signup process).
- Go to the Photos Settings and hit the now showing "Group Similar Faces" button.
- Validate that people show on the device, or another client (web for example).
- Turn off and uninstall Phison (if you want).
iOS
- Activate the VPN within Settings > General > VPN and set to a USA VPN
- (If you already have the Photos app) delete the Photos app
- Download the Photos app
- Sign into Photos
- Go into Settings and enable the now showing "Group similar Faces" option.
- Validate on the device (or web app) that people now show.
- Disable the VPN if desired.
I don't know when it was added, but shortly after the functionality for naming groups of faces in Android and iOS it is now available on the web interface of Google Photos.
- Click into the "Search" box
- Find a group of faces you want to name. You may need to click "More" to see all of the groups
Click "Who's this? Add a private label to search by name" and give the group a name.
You'll be prompted with names of people in your Contacts and possibly in your Google+ Circles, but you can put any text you want.
Now you can search for that person by the name you have given.
This is also how you can merge two face groups when a single person has been mistakenly identified as two different people.
More information from Google Support.
Do note: Facial recognition/grouping is not available in all countries.
Best Answer
I had the same problem. Here's how I fixed it.
Then click on the faces you want to hide.