Set up and manage your face groups

Important: This feature isn't available in all geographic regions, all domains, or all account types.

To easily search and manage your photos, you can apply a label to people or pets that appear in photos grouped by Google Photos.

Turn Face Groups on or off

You can stop grouping photos based on faces that appear in your photos.

If you turn off Face Groups, you delete:

  • Face groups in your account
  • Face models that were used to create those face groups
  • Face labels that you created

Learn about Google Photos' Face Groups retention policy.

To turn Face Groups on or off:

  1. On your computer, go to photos.google.co.uk/settings.
  2. Next to 'Group similar faces', click Show more Down arrow.
  3. Turn Face Groups on or off.
    • To turn off Face Groups only for photos of pets, turn off Show pets with people.

Organise your face groups

Step 1: Find photos of a person or pet

  1. On your computer, go to photos.google.co.uk/people.
  2. Click a face to find photos of them.

Tip: If a row of faces isn't there:

  • The feature isn't available in your geographic region.
  • You've turned Face Groups off in settings. Learn how to turn on Face Groups.
  • No face groups have been created.

Step 2: Add a name

Important: Only you can find the private face labels that you choose, even if you share those photos.

  1. At the top of a face group, click Add a name.
  2. Enter a name or nickname.

You can search with that label. Learn more about searching for your photos.

Manage your face groups

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