Can't manually add pet to photos

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Can't manually add pet to photos

Does anyone know how you can add a pet face to a picture and have it identified as a pet? Prior to the recent pet album update, I had tagged all my pet photos manually. Now with the update, there is a 2nd album of my pets, but it doesn't have all the photos I had tagged. So I wanted to go back and "fix" some of the photos, but when I try to change the name to the pet that Photos created, I can't choose it. It seems if you manually add a face, you can only pick a person, not a pet unless I'm missing something.

MacBook Pro 16″, macOS 14.0

Posted on Oct 2, 2023 4:43 AM

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Answer 1

Oct 2, 2023 8:37 AM in response to Murphybp2

I had some like that and finally managed to resolve it by giving them the same name, even though that name didn't show in the drop down list. That created 2 pets in People and Pets with the same name. I then merged the two in People and Pets.

Merge by dragging and dropping or see the following from Find and identify photos of people and pets in Photos on Mac - Apple Support

(I used command click to select the two pets in People and Pets)

Combine photos of a person or pet into one group

If you find more than one group of photos that identify the same face, you can combine the groups.

In the Photos app on your Mac, click People in the sidebar.
Select the groups of photos that you want to combine.
Control-click one group, then choose Merge [number] People.

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Answer 2

Oct 2, 2023 9:54 AM in response to léonie

I may be too old to learn how to do that! Hopefully it will get fixed very soon -- the whole Pets thing doesn't seem to be working well, at least for me. No pets were identified even on photos where a pet was the only subject in the photo and looking directly at the camera.

You're welcome to use it (no credit wanted).

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Murphybp2 Author

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Oct 2, 2023 3:45 PM in response to FoxFifth

Hello FoxFifth. I appreciate the response, however this doesn't solve my issue. The problem is that I can't seem to be able to manually tag a pet in a photo as a pet. If I manually tage them, it creates them as a person. This is how I managed tagging my pets before the recent updates, but this creates 2 albums of different types. One as a person, and one as a pet.

I can merge albums if they are both of the same type, either both people or both pets. There is no option to merge a pet album with a people album from what I can see. So this doesn't solve the issue for me.

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