The Photos app within iOS and iPadOS It has evolved with the latest updates. A few years ago, the possibility of detecting the faces of the people who appear in our photos and giving them a name to have all the people in a personalized album was integrated. Year after year, this recognition has been improving and the next evolution has come with iOS 17. With the new update pets like dogs and cats will be recognized within the Photos app and they will enter the personalized face album. Because according to Apple "pets are also family."
iOS 17 improves and will allow you to recognize and classify your pets
Photos suffers few changes in iOS 17 but one of the main ones is from the new pet face recognition. Apple has discussed the concept of "cats and dogs" both on its website and on the day of the opening keynote, but it may be possible to detect the faces of other animals over time. This recognition also allows give the animal a name and add it to the new album that is no longer called 'People' but 'People and pets'.
It is normal that if you do not have many photos of your animals within the iOS 17 photo library, it does not recognize those animals. In order to do so, it is necessary there are enough photos for machine learning to recognize the patterns. Once detected, it will be part of the album and Photos will start offering you memories of that animal, just like it happens with people.
It will have to be seen with the passage of the beta the ways in which iOS 17 is able to differentiate two animals with the same color or with a similar face, and understand how it will make a difference. Let's also remember that Photos has an integrated species search engine that allows you to detect what species the animal is within the application itself, a function that remains native in iOS 17.