Identify Your Favorite People
If you regularly take photos of close friends or family members, you can unlock many more powerful features by letting the Photos app know who those people are.
The Photos app uses face recognition to “know” when a person appears in your photos — and it’s all done entirely on your iPhone so you don’t need to worry about privacy. Once you identify a person, you’ll be able to find all the pictures they appear in more quickly.
Here’s how to get started:
- Open the Photos app.
- Select the Albums tab at the bottom of your screen.
- Scroll down, and under People & Places, choose People.
- Select a person’s face.
- Choose Add Name at the top of your screen.
- Enter the name of the person and select Next in the top right.
- Finally, choose Done in the top right to finish.
After you’ve given names to the people in a few of your photos, your iPhone will also use that information to generate memories in the For You based on the significant people in your life.