Select Edit > Preferences (Windows) or Adobe Lightroom > Preferences (macOS).
Learn how to enable People View to organize your photos and view categorized photos of people.
When you enable the People View and upload and sync photos to the cloud, Lightroom can detect, recognize, and group photos of the same person. You can access these photos in the People View and easily browse the photos of a particular person.
If you're a new user, People View is disabled by default. When the People View feature is enabled, Lightroom desktop and Lightroom for mobile (iOS and Android) analyze photos in the cloud to detect people to form clusters in People view.
When you disable People View, all existing face model data is deleted from Lightroom servers. Lightroom then no longer analyzes new photos and does not automatically group them into clusters. If you have any existing clusters in People View, they remain the same and are not deleted.
Select Edit > Preferences (Windows) or Adobe Lightroom > Preferences (macOS).
In the preferences dialog box, click the General tab.
Under the Privacy section, select Enable People View. If you want to disable People view, deselect this option.
Click Done.
To know more about this preferences setting, see General preferences.
Do one of the following to access the Settings menu:
In the Settings panel, select People View to enable the feature. If you want to disable this feature, deselect this option.
Launch the app and tap App Settings () in the upper-left corner of the screen.
Select Preferences > People View and use the toggle to turn on or off the People view categorization.
In My Photos panel at the upper-left side of the screen, select People to view the People View.
In this view, you can access People clusters where each cluster contains photos of a particular person. The total number of photos for each person is listed below the cover photo of the cluster.
If the People View is not yet enabled, open Lightroom preferences, click the General tab and select Enable People View under the Privacy section.
Initially, the People View may say 'No People Found Yet'. This message is displayed when Lightroom is still analyzing all your photos to find people, or when there aren't any people in your photos. The analysis takes place on Adobe's servers and does not require you to have the Lightroom app open on your computer. You can close Lightroom without impacting the time to complete the analysis.
Click any cluster to view photos of that person. You can also view the total number of photos in the cluster at the upper-right corner of the screen.
You can use the following options to sort People clusters in the People View:
To sort People clusters, follow these steps:
In the My Photos panel at the upper-left side of the screen, select People to view the People View.
Click the three dots icon in the upper-right corner of the screen. In the drop-down list, under Sort By, select one of the following options:
In the People View, click the unnamed cluster. The cluster opens.
In the open cluster, enter the person's name in the Add Name field at the top of the cluster.
Press Enter or click outside the Add Name field.
Alternatively, you can Ctrl-click (Mac)/right-click (Win) a person's cluster and select Add Name to name a person.
To add a photo to a People cluster, follow these steps:
Select the desired photo from the grid or Filmstrip.
In the panel at the right side of the screen, click Keywords to view the Keywords panel.
Under People in the Keywords panel, you can add the person's name in the Add Name field. Press Enter or click outside the name field to set the name.
You can rename a People cluster in one of the following ways:
In the My Photos panel at the upper-left side of the screen, select People to view the People View.
In the People View, click the three dots icon in the upper-right corner of the screen and select Show and Hide People.
People clusters that are shown in the People View are selected by default. To show a cluster that is hidden, select it. To hide a cluster, deselect it.
Click Done.
In the My Photos panel at the upper-left side of the screen, select People to view the People View.
In the People View, do one of the following:
Lightroom can detect when two clusters might actually be the same person. In this case, when you view one of the clusters, you’ll see a banner at the top which suggests merging the two clusters. Click Yes, Merge to merge the clusters or No to not merge the clusters. If you click No, Lightroom will not suggest merging those two specific clusters again. If you want to simply dismiss the suggestion banner without doing anything, click the X icon in the upper-right corner of the banner.
In the My Photos panel at the upper-left side of the screen, select People to view the People View.
Click a desired People cluster. In the open cluster, select a desired photo.
Only the person in the selected photo is set as the cover photo even if the photo has other people.
Click in the upper-right corner of the screen, and select Set as Cover Photo. Alternatively, you can right-click the photo and select Set as Cover Photo.
You can remove any photo from a People cluster in one of the following ways:
In the My Photos panel at the upper-left side of the screen, select People to view the People View.
Click a desired People cluster. In the open cluster, select a desired photo.
Click in the upper-right corner of the screen, and select Remove Photo from Person.
In the Remove Photo from Person dialog box that appears, click Remove.
Alternatively, you can do one of the following:
Double-click a desired photo from the grid or Filmstrip to open it.
In the panel at the right side of the screen, click Keywords to view the Keywords panel.
In the Keywords panel, hover over the person's name and click the cancel icon.
In the Remove Photo from Person dialog box that appears, click Remove to remove the photo from the person's cluster.
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