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Find and organize photos of people in the People View

Last updated on May 31, 2023

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.

Enable or disable People view

If you're a new user, the People view is disabled by default. When the People view feature is enabled, Lightroom for desktop (Mac and Windows) and Lightroom for mobile (iOS and Android) analyze photos in the cloud to create models of faces to group similar faces together. By enabling this feature, you're letting us know that it's okay for Adobe to create these models on your behalf and that you have approval from the individuals featured in your photos.

When you disable People view, all existing face model data is deleted from Lightroom servers. Existing groups of similar faces will remain showing in the People view, but Lightroom will stop analyzing your photos to find people and similar faces will no longer be automatically grouped together.

Note:

The People view feature isn't available on images uploaded from Illinois.

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:
- If you're in the Albums view, tap the Settings icon () at the upper-right corner of the screen.
- If you're in the Grid view or Loupe view, tap the three-dots icon at the upper-right corner of the screen, and select Settings from the pop-up 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.

View people in your photos

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.

Note:

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.

Sort options in People View

You can use the following options to sort People clusters in the People View:

Count (Number of photos in a cluster)
First Name and Last Name (Alphabetical order of people)

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:
- First Name: Sorts named clusters in alphabetical order of first name.
- Last Name: Sorts named clusters in alphabetical order of last name.
- Count: Sorts clusters in order of the highest number of photos to the least number of photos in a cluster.
You can sort People by first name, last name, or count.

Add names to a photo in the Keywords panel

Name a Person

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.

Note:

Alternatively, you can Ctrl-click (Mac)/right-click (Win) a person's cluster and select Add Name to name a person.

Add names to a photo in the Keywords panel

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.

Rename a Person

You can rename a People cluster in one of the following ways:

In the People View, Control-click (Mac) or right-click (Win) a People cluster and select Rename Person. You can edit the person's name and then press Enter or click outside the name field to set the name.
Click a People cluster in the People View. Within the open cluster, you can do one of the following:
- Directly edit the name at the top of the cluster. Once you've edited the name, press Enter or click outside the name field.
- Click the three dots icon in the upper-right corner of the screen and select Rename Person. You can then edit the name at the top of the cluster. Press Enter or click outside the name field to set the name.

Show or hide People

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.

Merge People

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:
- Select the clusters that you want to merge (Command-click in Mac/Shift-click in Win) and click Merge in the top panel of the screen.
- Rename a cluster to the desired person's name and click Merge in the dialog box that appears.
- Drag a cluster onto another cluster. In the Are these the same person? dialog box that appears, select Merge.
Note:

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.

Change a person's cover photo

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.

Note:

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.

Remove a photo from a person's cluster

You can remove any photo from a People cluster in one of the following ways:

From within a People cluster

From the Keywords panel

From within a People cluster

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.
Note:
Alternatively, you can do one of the following:

Control-click (in Mac)/right-click (in Win) a photo in an open cluster and select Remove Photo from Person.

Control-click (in Mac)/right-click (in Win) a photo in an open cluster and select Move To. You can then select a person's name to move the photo from the open cluster to another cluster.

From the Keywords panel

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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