How to teach your iPhone or iPad to recognize the faces of your friends

The Cupertino company has worked hard to improve the Photos app in the last few months, in fact, it has become quite generally involved in the entire field of video / image editing. A novelty that came with iOS 10 was the identification of faces within the system, which would allow us to easily organize our photographs, or at least find the people who appear in them more easily. However, this is one of the many functionalities of iOS that a large number of users are unaware of, that is why we want to teach you from Actualidad iPhone teach your iPhone or iPad how to catalog photos based on who appears in them.

This functionality is exclusive to the Photos application It is quite simple to use, so today we want to show you the most basic steps with which to configure its functionalities and get all the juice that a feature like this deserves, since it will allow you to share and catalog your moments with other people in the best possible way.

Set Photos to recognize faces

To do this, the first thing we are going to do is open the iOS Photos application, once inside, we see how in the folder on the right next to the one for "Reel", we have a one called "People". This is going to be the epicenter of the configuration, the key section of this entire history of facial recognition.

Once inside, we will observe the function "Add”, Where all the faces that the system has detected within the photographs will be stored, now is the time to select one of them. Now we are going to choose the first one that interests us, and the portrait will open. At the top we will choose "+ Add name" and it will give us the possibility to choose someone from the agenda or put a name ourselves. We have already taken the first step in organizing our facial recognition system.

How do I merge multiple people that the system doesn't recognize?

On some occasions, the system will not be too precise with the recognition of faces, in this case we will have to go back to the point of “People”Within the Photos app. Let's look inside "Add"How many photographs do we have of the same person, and once we add the same name again, it will ask us if we want to merge the content.

By merging the content, we make the facial recognition system more accurate, as it will have more information about the face of the same person, which will facilitate the task of recognition in future photographs, so it is advisable to take a good time choosing the photographs that the system is not capable of identifying by itself.

How to add photos of a single person more easily?

 

To do this, once we add the first photo and tag it with a person's name, Apple has enabled scrolling to the bottom a function called "Confirm more photos"Thanks to this option, a guided and fast system will be opened in which iOS will simply search for matches and we must mark as" Yes "or" No "in the event that the person matches the one recognized by the system.

This is the way I recommend To cover as many people as possible in the least time invested, it is undoubtedly a great option to avoid having to enter them manually.

How to add favorites to the "People" section?

 

You will have quickly noticed that in the upper part of the "People" section we find a series of photographs that are shown with a slightly larger size. There we can add a series of users that we consider favorites, to be able to access even faster the photographs in which they appear.

To do this, once the corresponding users have been added to facial recognition, we are going to click on "Select”In the upper right corner and we are going to select the face of the person we want to make a favorite. Once selected, in the lower central part we see the option "Favorite", Click on the button and this user will move to the top, which will become"Favorite”And we can access it a little faster.

How to take advantage of the People function and create Memories?

Regards It is an automatic video creation system that Apple also implemented in the Photos application and from which we can get much more out of it thanks to the People (facial recognition) function of iOS. And is that when we click on a person, a collage will open with the photographs that the system has detected, but the header will show us a preview of what would be the Memory that iOS has created for us with that content, and that we can edit to our liking just by pressing it.

And this is all for now, if you know more great ideas to exploit the facial recognition feature included in iOS with the arrival of iOS 10, feel free to leave it in the comment box and share your ideas.