Recognize people

Kura-chan can detect faces in your photos and group photos by person, so you can browse all of one person’s photos at once.

Before you begin

• Let Kura-chan read your photos first — see Add your photos to Kura-chan.
• Face recognition is available on all plans, including the free plan.

Scan and group

1. Open Photos → People.

2. Click Scan faces in the top-right. Kura-chan detects faces and clusters them into people. Scanning a large library takes time and runs in the background.

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

4. Faces that aren’t grouped yet appear under Ungrouped; click any face to open the original photo it came from.

Manage a person

Open a person to enter their photo page, then click the ⋯ (more) button in the top-right to open the actions menu:

• Rename — name or rename the person.
• Merge… — merge another group of the same person into this one.
• Prepare this person first — prioritize this person’s photos for AI search preparation.
• Hide — remove this person from the people list; their photos stay in the library.

Note

Naming a person also improves text search — searching by name brings up their photos.

Troubleshooting

• The same person is split into several groups. Open one and use Merge… to combine the other group into it.
• There’s someone you don’t want in the list. Open that person and choose Hide; their photos stay in the library.
• The scan looks stuck. It runs in the background and large libraries take time. Leave it and check back later.