Aug 6, 2019
How to turn on facial recognition in google photos
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Aug 6, 2019
After having it turned on you may have to wait a while to see any groups.
If you do not see that option, then Face grouping may not be available in your country (yet).
I am not sure whether it is available for School or G Suite accounts.
Nov 24, 2019
Click Albums.
Click People.
Top right - click 3 dots.
Select Hide & Show People.
Voila! You will get a selection of faces from your Google Photos.
Select one at a time and name it. Click Done. This face will be selected into its own album.
Neat.
Repeat for more faces.
Jan 6, 2020
It was going to be a very useful feature to us. Is there anything we can do to re-enable it?
It does not exist on other GFE accounts either, so it doesn't seem to be just my own account, nor very recent accounts. It seems that by disabling the feature on my own account I killed it across the entire school.
Jan 13, 2020
Jan 13, 2020
It appears that the option to "Group similar faces" disappeared from the Settings in the web app for many users. The strange thing is that the option seems still available in the mobile Google Photos app for the same account.
- In one account, where it was activated long ago "Grouping similar faces" is still complete, with the option to turn on/off in the settings on web app.
- In another (newer) account the option to turn it on/off does ONLY appear in the Google Photos app on my mobile devices, but not in the web app. On the web however the "People" album does appear in https://photos.google.com/albums and everything seems to work.
Conclusion: go to the settings in Google Photos on a mobile device to turn it on/off.
Jan 13, 2020
I'm using iPhone and have more than 1 Google account (one normal Google account, another Google for Education). I switch between them and the "Group by Faces" (facial recognition) is consistent with the web UI... toggle appears for normal-Google and no toggle for Google-for-Education.
Last edited Jan 13, 2020
Jan 14, 2020
I alco can not see the peoples album :(
Thanks for helping. Perhaps a bug?
Last edited Jan 14, 2020
Jan 18, 2020
"The option does not appear in settings on the app (iOS)"
Your nickname suggests that you have a school account. I am not sure whether that matters and could not find the answer. But one thing is sure: Google Photos is not completely supported in school or Gsuite accounts. I have also one school account and it does not appear there neither (I am in Europe).
Jan 22, 2020
Nov 5, 2020
@ all
Unfortunately it seems that Google indeed removed Face Grouping from G Suite / School accounts.