Can i disable face recognition in iphoto

For people like me who takes lot of pictures, it is just a stupid app that is draining my CPU every time I launch iPhoto. Finally, I found a magical, simple solution to turn it off shared by someone called lopezio :. Quit iPhoto. Type the following exactly as is :.

If you ever need to re-enable faces, just do the same again and replace the 0 with 1. Simple, sweet and easy solution. All my pain is gone.

Thank you lopezio! Pass this on to another iPhoto user if you found this tip useful. Together, we can save the world from the evil Faces. Additional notes from lopezio:. The prefs change does not remove the Faces tab on the left.

It Just disables further face detection the wheel stops turining in the Faces tab , thus saving battery life on laptops and reducing processor usage. There is no special need for a backup before this operation. It does not change anything in the Libraries and is revertible. IconDaemon IconDaemon Thanks for the feedback link! I've done a quick test here and it looks like deleting a face does not free disk space at least not immediately. I logged an enhancement request and hope the Photos team come up with a solution soon!

After removing faces from the Faces album, I then opened Photos Library. Now, after importing images with faces, the faces. Perhaps this is a way to turn it off? Apparently you can stop face recognition by quitting iPhotos, opening a terminal and typing the following and press enter : defaults write com. As for the new "Photos" app, I don't think you can disable the face detection.

Community Bot 1. GlennG GlennG 3 3 silver badges 11 11 bronze badges. Forcibly stopping the program performing the analysis 2 alternative solutions Either: A Using an app to forcibly pause the process that performs the analysis As someone said here you can use an external app to pause the process before it goes nuts and makes your computer heat up.

Or: B Forcibly disabling the process for the whole computer You could go for completely preventing the photoanalysisd process from ever starting up by entering a command in Terminal. Restoring the functionality if used option B You can always restore the permissions and everything would be back to normal with these commands run in Recovery Mode.

Getting "Operation not permitted" for this — GJ. It is a meant to be run as root super-user. Are you sure you did not forget the sudo part at the beginning? Yes, running it with sudo. Probably something to do with the system integrity mechanism blocking this. I should have mentioned this. There is a way to do this now in Photos Version 3. John John 4 4 silver badges 13 13 bronze badges. Nats Nats 1. This really does not answer the question posed, which seeks to remove the face detection data, not merely hide the names.

Alex Alex 1. Welcome to Ask Different. While it's good to answer questions it's not necessary to repeat the same answer multiple times. Tap the more options button at the top right. This will open a menu with a multitude of options. If you remove someone from a photo, there is no way to add them back. Perhaps this will be rectified by the time the stable version of iOS 12 rolls out but until then, be careful who you remove. More importantly, you can assign a face a contact from your phone.

For example, if you have a lot of photos of your mom, you can tap the Name option at the very top and enter a name. When you enter the name, the app searches your contacts for matching names that you can pick. The People feature is neat but not everyone in your camera roll needs to be identified.