Using keywords in Smart Album
When adding a Smart Album in Apple Photos and choosing "keywords" as a condition Apple Photo immediately crashes.
MacBook Pro 16″, macOS 26.0
When adding a Smart Album in Apple Photos and choosing "keywords" as a condition Apple Photo immediately crashes.
MacBook Pro 16″, macOS 26.0
That suggests to me that there is one or other of the keywords in the main library that's triggering the crash. Using the Keyword Manager (Window -> Keyword Manager -> Edit Keywords), inspect the keywords keeping an eye out for odd diacritical marks or symbols. If you find one, remove it and try again.
I'd go ahead and rebuild the Library-- see below.
I usually follow these steps in order to narrow things down,
Start up your Mac in safe mode - Apple Support
The idea is to find out if the problem is with the Library, with your account, or with caches and login items, and stuff like that. One of these steps may fix the problem, but their failure to work also helps figure out what's happening.
Let us know what happens…
For what it's worth, that's not happening here.
Try create a new library as a test, add a couple of photos and see does the problem recur there.
I created a new library added some photos. The problem does NOT recur in the test library.
Thank you for the tip, I found a backslash (\) in the keywords, removed it and no more crashing.
Using keywords in Smart Album