iPhone does not recognize a person's face in a photo

As it is now, I have to duplicate the one photo I am having of the person at least five times to get Photos to show a faces icon on an iOS device, if there is no hope of getting more photos of this person, but we want to add them to the People album.

iPhone should start recognizing their face after you have multiple photos of them in your library. You can also manually select faces on a Mac in the photos app: Find and identify photos of people and pets in Photos on Mac - Apple Support

Yeah, it is kind of limiting. You could create your own album not in the People albums, or you could use the manual method on a Mac which should work with only one photo. If you have access to a Mac, that article I linked would be the best option to try. Otherwise you’re probably out of luck.

Leo

Leonie- you wrote a post in 2020 offering a script that would, in batch, write the titles of photos (created in Photos/Mac) into the caption field so that the title could be seen on iPhone or iPad. I'm posting the url of that post below. Sorry but this is the only way I could find you and ask you this question although I realize it is not on this topic. So my question is- will that batch phot captioning script still work today in November 2023 with MAC OS Ventura 13.6? I'm not a regular on this forum so not really sure how it works but please try to find a way to contact me... thanks! Photo Titles on iPad (IOS) - Apple Community

That is very limiting, isn't it?

I do not need to tag the faces of people I am meeting frequently. For those I can recognize the face myself, when I am seeing the photo. I need the People album to remember the names of the people I have met only once and will probably never meet again. For many of my ancestors I have just one single photo, also for people I met when travelling. The People album would be much more useful on the mobile devices, if we could manually add the people we want to remember, even if there is only one, but very precious, photo of them.