Windows 10: Turn On or Off Face Detection and Recognition in Windows 10 Photos app

How to: Turn On or Off Face Detection and Recognition in Windows 10 Photos app

How to Turn On or Off People Face Detection and Recognition in Windows 10 Photos app


The Photos app included in Windows 10 is a universal app that allows you to enjoy, organize, edit, and share all your digital memories. It brings together photos and videos from all your devices, enhances them to make great photos even better, and organizes them into beautiful albums for you.

By default, the Photos app uses face detection and recognition technology to group pictures of people together for you, from your added folders, to help you tag and organize them. The data will be stored on your device.

This tutorial will show you how to turn on or off people face detection and recognition in the Photos app for your account in Windows 10.


EXAMPLE: People face detection and recognition turn on and off in Photos app











Here's How:

1. Open the Photos app from the Start menu *Start.
2. Click/tap on the See more button

, and click/tap on Settings. (see screenshot below)



3. Under the Viewing and editing settings, turn On (default) or Off People for what you want. (see screenshot below)



4. You can now close the Photos app if you like.


That's it,
Shawn


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Windows 10 Photos app face recognition problems

It seems your suggestion works. Photos is still indexing but has already detected much more persons as well as more photos for the various persons. Thank you so much.

 

Windows 10 Photos app face recognition problems

I have had the same problems as you for a very long time, though I did not reinstall my computer. I have been surprised also that reinstalling the app didn't solve the problems at all, and the same faces seems to be recognized. Though - it seems I have found a solution. The only difference this time is that I chose to uninstall/reset the "People" app, at the time of resetting the Photos app . This seems to be required for the face recognition to work within Photos app, and I believe that the actual "face data", or at least some important component, might be stored in the People app, and not the Photos.
Let me know if this works!

 

Windows 10 Photos app face recognition problems

Hello,

I already posted my problem on the official Windows forums in April this year but MS staff are apparently not very keen on solving issues and helping their paying customers. They sent one standard response and did not respond further. Box ticked, next, I guess..

Hopefully someone on this forum has any suggestions. Since I posted the below, I have done more reinstalls of the Photo app, did a reset of the 'people' app, renamed the photo folder and had the photos app rescan it, and had the computer on for days without even looking at it, but the problem persists..

Original message:

I recently switched to Windows 10. Clean install on a formatted disk. Everything is working perfectly but the photos app:

I pointed the photos app at my photo directory with approximately 20-30K pictures. All of these have been indexed and are visible in the 'collection' tab and the app created all kinds of albums. The face recognition functionality however is problematic as the app only detects 21 faces (interestingly almost the same group each time I tried) while there must be hundreds and it for example detects only 200 and 50 photos respectively from my kids while there should be thousands for each of them.

I tried all kinds of fixes for other issues people are having with the photos app, including:

- stop, restore and reset from the settings - apps - photos menu.

- completely removing the app with the powershell command and reinstalling a fresh copy from the windows app store.

- deleting the MediaDb.v1.sqlite file from the C:\Users\X\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.Windows.Photos_8wekyb3d8bbwe folder and restart the app in order to have it rebuild the index / dbase and completely deleting the content of this folder.

Since the last reinstall my computer has been running non-stop (with energy saving for the hdds switched off in case this would make a difference) for almost three days but the number of faces for a limited amount of persons is the same as after the initial couple of hours and the MediaDb.v1.sqlite file seems to no longer increase in size, so I get the impression that the face recognition process is simply stuck. Initially this happened when it reached appr 20 faces and at that stage the MediaDb.v1.sqlite file is approximately 400MB. My latest two attempt led to only 4 faces with 163, 23, 8 and 2 photos respectively and again a MediaDb.v1.sqlite of almost 400MB.

Many thanks