Q&A for How to Label Faces in Google Photos

Unfortunately, Google is still adding to their photo technologies, and you can't really add a face to the list of possibilities. The more photos you have of that person, the more likely it is to be picked up by the algorithm as a face.

Yes, Google Photos recently added a pet feature. If you have enough recognizable photos of your pup, he/she will show up as a face under "People & Pets" and you will be able to label them.

That means that you are in a country or territory where this feature is not currently supported.

Try turning the group faces feature off and then on again. Wait a few days after you do this, as it may sometimes take Google Photos time to scan all the photos for faces.

When you click on the search bar, there should be a whole bunch of people that show up. Click on that tab and you should see a list of all the people Google has gathered from your photos. Click on a specific person, and next to their picture there should be blue text that says "Add a Name". Click on that text and type your desired name, then press Done. If done correctly, every time you type that name in the search box, the picture should show up along with all the pictures associated with them.

There's no way for adding photos when manually tagging specific people. You have to hope that the face AI recognizes the person correctly and adds it automatically.

If Google does not recognize a face in your picture, you can do absolutely nothing to fix that. You just have to wait until the AI improves over time and eventually detects the missing face.

This would be because they don't recognise the rats' faces as faces (it only recognises human faces). You might want to create an album for the rat photos instead.

Yes. You can label any face, regardless of whether or not they are in your contacts.

It depends on how realistic the faces are. Generally, Google Photos only recognises faces that resemble real-life human faces.

Unfortunately, Google Photos doesn’t allow manual tagging for faces it doesn’t recognize. A workaround is to add their name as a caption or description for the photo, although this isn't linked to facial recognition. If this feature is important, consider reaching out to Google Photos support to suggest it as feedback.

Google Photos doesn’t currently allow you to manually tag people in the "People" section if it hasn’t automatically recognized their faces. To improve recognition, be sure face grouping is turned on in your settings. Check if their face appears under "Other People" in the People section, where you can name or group them. If not, try cropping the photo to highlight their face and re-uploading it, as this can sometimes trigger face detection. If these steps don’t work, you can still label the photo in the description for identification, but manual tagging isn’t directly supported.

Google Photos currently doesn’t allow you to manually indicate a specific area of a photo for face detection. If the app doesn’t detect a face, try cropping the photo to focus on the face and re-upload it. Ensure the photo is clear and well-lit, as poor image quality can affect detection. If the face still isn’t recognized, you can use a third-party app to manually tag the face and re-upload the edited photo to Google Photos. Without a built-in manual face-marking feature, these workarounds are the best options.

If Google Photos has stopped recognizing your daughter's face, ensure that face grouping is enabled in settings. Check the "People & Pets" section to make sure her face isn’t hidden, and manually tag her in photos by tapping the face icon and adding her name. Clearing the app cache or updating Google Photos might also help. Try signing out and back into your account to refresh the app. If the issue persists, contact Google Photos support or create an album with her photos to aid recognition.