For the last year and a half, I've been using Apple Photos as my Lightroom replacement and I've been pleasantly surprised. I'm not a pro photographer by any means and so the editing options are plenty powerful for my hobbyist needs. The ability to integrate with other apps (Affinity Suite for me) is also fantastic. In fact, I've enjoyed it so much that I've switched from Google Photos to iCloud Photos so that Photos is now my primary library.
But holy hell, the duplicates and face scanning features are frustrating. I've tried every trick I can find to get the app to scan and it just won't. At one point I got my iPad to recognise about 1000 duplicates (out of a library of about 20K images), but since then it, every device basically tells me to plug it in and go **** myself. I've left my M2 Air plugged in an in just about every configuration of awake/asleep, Photos open/closed for over a week and it just. won't. do. anything.
The plugging in thing is also annoying because this laptop is so powerful on battery, but the app simply won't let me use it the way that makes sense.
I was really disappointed to see that Apple didn't add a button or option to force a scan/rescan with Sonoma. I've since filed a feature request for it, but who knows if anyone ever looks at those. I know these computers are powerful enough to do it, why do I need to rely on the whims of the machine to decide when I get to see duplicates?
If anyone has any hail-mary options for forcing a scan, please let me know, otherwise I guess I'll just treat this as broken feature for the foreseeable future.
But holy hell, the duplicates and face scanning features are frustrating. I've tried every trick I can find to get the app to scan and it just won't. At one point I got my iPad to recognise about 1000 duplicates (out of a library of about 20K images), but since then it, every device basically tells me to plug it in and go **** myself. I've left my M2 Air plugged in an in just about every configuration of awake/asleep, Photos open/closed for over a week and it just. won't. do. anything.
The plugging in thing is also annoying because this laptop is so powerful on battery, but the app simply won't let me use it the way that makes sense.
I was really disappointed to see that Apple didn't add a button or option to force a scan/rescan with Sonoma. I've since filed a feature request for it, but who knows if anyone ever looks at those. I know these computers are powerful enough to do it, why do I need to rely on the whims of the machine to decide when I get to see duplicates?
If anyone has any hail-mary options for forcing a scan, please let me know, otherwise I guess I'll just treat this as broken feature for the foreseeable future.