Google Photos Now Lets You Manually Tag People in Photos

Google Photos' automatic face-tagging feature that sorts pictures into albums based on people in your photos is definitely one of my favourite reasons for using the app. However, while that feature itself is pretty great, Google has, for some reason, never allowed users to manually tag people in photos within the app.

That is existence stock-still at present with a new feature — which is rolling out at present — that will allow users to manually add tags for faces in pictures. So, the adjacent fourth dimension Google is unable to identify a person in your pictures, you lot tin can manually tag them in information technology to add the photograph to their anthology. Nevertheless, as pointed out past Android Police, which first reported on the characteristic, this only works if Google Photos recognises that in that location is a confront in the film in the commencement place.

What this means, is if Google doesn't seem to think that in that location'due south a face in your flick at all, you lot still tin can't tag anyone in it. The new feature is merely helpful if Google is able to recognise that there'south a face in the picture, simply isn't able to place whose face it is. That's a fairly big caveat, but the new feature is at least a pace in the right management from Google.

And then, how ofttimes do y'all find yourself wanting to tag a person in a picture manually? Personally, my feel with Google Photos' tagging people automatically has been adequately good, and I've not institute many instances where Google Photos has missed out on recognising someone in a moving picture I took, only how has your feel been? Permit me know in the comments.