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mj_

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May 18, 2017
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I'm still trying to wrap my head around the clusterf.... that is Apple Photos on iOS.

First, where does People "From My Mac" come from? I have sychronization of people disabled in iTunes because it's a crap feature to begin with but for some reason there is an album in the "From My Mac" section named "People" containing two people with four photos total: one photo of myself and three of my wife. Where do these come from?

And second, the "People" on my iPhone album has been stuck at 140 photos remaining to be scanned for months now. Plus, it only detected four seemingly random poeple in all my photos even though there are dozens others in there as well. Apparently, Apple doesn't consider them humanoid but whatever. Is there any way to either a) disable this feature completely (although I believe I already know the answer to this, and it's a firm and resolute "NO, because Tim wants you to use it. PERIOD.") or b) somehow force it to resume scanning the remaining 140 photos?
 
Apparently restarting my iPhone sort of fixed the second problem. I no longer have 140 photos remaining to be scanned but it also didn’t detect any new faces. Fine by me and only further proof that this feature is as useless and broken as expected.

The first question remains though - why are there two people in a People album “From my Mac” when people synchronization with my Mac is disabled?
 
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