Recognize people

Kura-chan can detect faces and group your photos by person, so you can browse everything of one person in a tap — and find them by name in search.

Before you start

• Mount your photos first — see Add your photos.
• Face recognition is available on every plan, including Free.

Find and name people

1. Open Photos → People.

2. Click Scan Faces. Kura-chan detects faces and clusters them by person — you’ll see Detecting faces… then Clustering… while it works. Scanning a large library may take a while; it runs in the background.

3. Turn on Auto to keep picking up faces in new photos automatically.

4. Click a cluster and give it a name. Named people appear under Named; Kura-chan also offers Suggested matches you can confirm or reject.

Fix groupings

Faces don’t always cluster perfectly. From a person’s page or Manage faces:

• Merge — combine two clusters that are the same person. This can be undone.
• Split — break a cluster that accidentally mixed two people.
• Move to… — send a misfiled face to the right person.
• Set as avatar — tap any face to make it the cover for that person.
• Hide — remove someone from the People list. Hidden people are also excluded from search results.
• Rename — change a person’s name at any time.

Note

Naming people also improves text search — searching a person’s name surfaces their photos.

Troubleshooting

• One person split into several groups. Open the groups and Merge them together.
• A stranger’s face landed in the wrong group. Split the cluster, or Move the face to the correct person.
• Someone you don’t want listed. Hide them — they leave the People list and search results but their photos stay in your library.
• Scanning seems stuck. It runs in the background; large libraries take time. Leave it and check back.