People & Faces
Organizer+The book finds faces in photographs automatically and groups the ones that look alike. Your job as an organizer is to put names to those groups — “that’s Grandma,” “that’s Uncle Charles” — and clean up any confusion along the way.
Naming, merging, moving, and ignoring faces is for organizers and admins. Commenters can open People & Faces and browse the groups and names, but the screen is read-only for them — the editing controls are hidden.
Opening the screen
Open the menu (☰) in the top-right corner of the book and pick People & Faces. You’ll see a full-screen workspace with two tabs: Faces and People.
The People & Faces screen. “Faces” groups look-alikes; “People” is the named list.
The Faces tab
Every cluster of look-alike faces shows up as a row of circular tiles. If the cluster is already named, the name appears above. If not, the cluster is unnamed and waiting for you.
Giving a cluster a name
- Click any face in the unnamed cluster. A card opens showing the face and some matching options.
- Press Assign Name. A sheet appears from the bottom.
- If you see the right name in the suggested list, tap it.
- Otherwise, type the name in the search box. The list filters as you type — pick an existing person or press Create new person.
- The whole cluster is now named that person.
Merging people
Sometimes the same person ends up in two clusters — one from younger photos, one from older. Open one cluster, press Merge, and pick the other person to combine. The merged person keeps every face from both.
Fixing mistakes
If a face landed in the wrong cluster, click it and choose Move to another person or Unassign. If a face isn’t really a face at all (a painting, a blurry smudge), choose Ignore and it won’t bother you again.
Occasionally a cluster ends up containing faces that were assigned to different people — you’ll see a “Mixed people — needs review” badge on it. Automatic naming leaves those alone on purpose: open the cluster and use Move, Unassign, or a fresh assignment to sort the faces out, and the badge disappears.
The People tab
Switch to the People tab to see every named person in the family, sorted by how often they appear. Click a person to jump to their cluster of faces and all the pages they’re on.
Searching
Both tabs have a search box across the top. Type a name to filter. To clear, press the × at the right of the search box.
Closing the workspace
Press Done for now to go back to the book. There is nothing to “finish” here — naming faces is an open-ended, optional activity you can pick at whenever you like. Any faces you haven’t named stay right where they are, ready for next time.
Name a few clusters whenever you have a minute. Progress is saved immediately, and the book picks up where you left off. Some faces may never get a name — a blurry face in a crowd, a stranger passing through — and that’s perfectly fine. The book is complete either way.