I have previously written about the problems with Appel Photos new People and Pets and my dogs. It keeps tagging Indiana Bones photos (who is dead) to pictures of Pepper Pawtts over and over again. Super frustrating. It really needs the ability to add deceased and born tags. Or take into account keywords?
Well now I have a new problem that is seriously frustrating. I have been going through People and Pets and getting it all setup with contact info for my closets family and friends. Well as of yesterday it combined my wife and my father.
Now my wife is Kelly Lynn Pancho Walker and my dad is Kelly Deanne Walker. And I had them setu correctly and attached to their individual contacts. And they seriously look nothing alike!
And the best part is going through and telling it that my dad is not my wife doesn’t seem to transfer between devices. Over the past 7 days I have had to do the same thing on my computer, iPad and iPhone, and multiple times on some of the devices. And I keep going back and finding more photos of my dad tagged to my wife! In fact I have gone through my 10,000+ photos of my over 15 times and every time there is at least one photo of my father stuck in there, and usually more like 6-10! WTF!
And unlike old versions of photos where I could tag people myself, now you have to let Photos do it, so I have no way to retag photos of my father as himself! And he doesn’t show up as his own person. Again WTf!
Apple makes things simpler with less control for users, which is fine, at least until they don’t work! And then there is no way to fix anything! And this new feature is not ready for prime time, but knowing Apple I don’t know if it ever will be!
Honestly this is the simplest Apple Intelligence available for all compatible devices and if this is the quality, then I am scared of the quality of Apple Intelligence. This is a bug that should not happen!
Key wording photos has always been time intensive so Apple automatically tagging people is great, but not with mistakes like this.
All I can do now is wait see if my father ever reshows as a possible person, is I can tag him and have his photos show up as himself, but I doubt it will ever happen. Will 10 years from now, will photos of my father keep showing up tagged as my wife? It seems pretty likely!