Jun 1, 2018

How to correct wrong face label

When faces were merged, some face labels were wrong

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janvb

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Jul 28, 2019

@all

There is actually nothing you can do other than "Remove results" for the wrongly tagged photos (Select photos > 3-dots > Remove results).

The removed photos should come back later, hopefully in the correct group. D. Lieb announced on Twitter that manual tagging is being worked on:

https://www.engadget.com/2019/07/03/google-photos-manually-tag-faces-twitter-conversation/

Last edited Nov 10, 2019

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Sandie

Community member

Jun 1, 2018

Hi Brogan,

There's a great guide on this page.

If you see a photo that's in the wrong group, you can take it out.

On your computer, go to photos.google.com/search.
Click Next .
Open the face group you want to remove something from.
At the top right, click More Remove results.
Select a photo.
At the top, click Remove.

Note: This will not delete the photo or video from your Google Photos library.

Do post again if you have more questions.

Sandie

Last edited Jun 8, 2019

David Gottlieb

Nov 10, 2019

If I have photos of my children that are clearly face labeled incorrectly (son who was just born has his photo shown as 10+ years ago as google photos thinks they are the same person). How do I remove the incorrect tag and tag the correct individual?

Same question in pictures where someone isn’t tagged and I want to face label/tag them?

Thanks

P Shan

Nov 12, 2019

Wish there's convenient way to remove all face tags in selection of photos. I took photos of parade. I now got hundreds of strangers' faces from just dozens of photos. So bummed there's no easy way to correct this. I now am removing results for each face one at a time.

P Shan

Nov 12, 2019

The worst of all is that I apparently have reached some limit of face groups and when I remove results now the rest of strangers from the parade got added to my face groups. I guess the only thing I can do is delete these photos and never add photos with lots of strangers in the background to my Google Photos

P Shan

Nov 12, 2019

Also not to upload any photos taken in a broadway show with audience in the background.

P Shan

Nov 12, 2019

I wonder what if I label all strangers faces with the same label. Would that mess up the algorithm? But it would make my lives easier I think as labeling is easier than removing results again and again.

janvb

Diamond Product Expert

Nov 13, 2019

@P Shan

You can also "hide" faces:

Go to https://photos.google.com/people
Click 3-dots > Show & hide faces
Select faces to be hidden (or unhide)
Click "Done"

Not a joy neither, but at least they may not come back.

P Shan

Nov 14, 2019

@janvb

As I mentioned in my earlier post, I think I reached the limit on number of faces for each account. Some faces of people I want to include cannot be included. Hiding faces doesn't help. The only ways to unlabel people and free up more faces, so far I've found, are:

1, remove all results for a face.

2, mark different faces as same person (even though they are not).

Daisy Villavicencio

Nov 20, 2019

Google photos will add my pictures to my 18 month old daughter folder! This is driving me crazy.

Saran saran

Nov 20, 2019

I need my photo

Farni

Nov 26, 2019

I have an identical problem as Brad. I have done exactly what he has done and Person Y new pictures are still being recognized as person X. Both person X and Y have their own labels.

It seems no one cares to remedy this problem. There should be a way to reassign pictures from one label to another. Since clearly many people have problems with this issue.

janvb

Diamond Product Expert

Nov 26, 2019

@Farni

"It seems no one cares to remedy this problem. There should be a way to reassign pictures from one label to another."

See the "Recommended answer" on top of the thread: it is on the road map.

Renato Duarte

Nov 26, 2019

I was able to resolve my issue. I saw a post a while back that if you remove name labels and wait 24 hours the issue may be fixable. I tried it and it worked. I was able to re-label everyone correctly this time. It may be due to this time my kids are older and they look different so there is a bigger database to pull from.

either way, it worked. you guys can give it a try if you haven't already.