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Clean landscapes and empty interiors only. Handy when you need a shot without anyone in it.
Feature ยท AI People
Find every photo of a person
Your library holds thousands of photos of the same few people: your kids, your partner, your clients. Collecting every shot of one of them means scrolling folder after folder and picking faces out by eye. PhotoCore lets you name a person once from a few sample shots, and from then on every photo of them is a search away, all on your Mac.
Name a person once@mentions in searchPeople-count filtersOff by default
The problem
Tagging thousands of photos by hand never happens
The plan is always the same: one weekend you will go through the archive and tag everyone. With 20,000 photos and a dozen recurring people, that weekend never arrives. So grandma's birthday album stays unmade, and the client who asks for 'every shot of the bride's mother' triggers an evening of scrolling. Face recognition exists to remove exactly this chore.
How it works
Name a person once
A few samples, then the whole library
Turn on AI People, pick a few sample shots of someone, and give them a name. PhotoCore detects faces with Apple Vision on the Neural Engine and matches that identity across your whole library, locally. From then on, every photo of that person is a search away, including the ones buried in folders you forgot about.
- A few sample shots are enough to name a person
- Matching runs locally on the Neural Engine
- Works across every indexed folder and drive
Search
Mention people inside any search
Names work inside the search box, together with meaning. Type '@Anna at the beach' and PhotoCore returns photos of Anna where the scene matches the words. The person filter and the semantic engine run in the same query, so you skip the usual routine of opening a person's album and scrolling it by hand. The search itself works like every other query in PhotoCore: on device and in more than 100 languages, as described on the AI photo search page.
Filters
Filter by how many people are in the frame
Exactly 2
Couple portraits without the group shots. Combine it with words, like 'sunset on the pier'.
More than 5
Group photos and crowd scenes, from family reunions to the dance floor at a reception.
People-count filters stack with text search and with the quality sort, so 'exactly 2 people' plus a quality sort surfaces the best couple shots first. That combination is covered on the photo culling page.
Privacy
Faces never leave your Mac
Off by default, local by design
AI People is off until you turn it on. When you do, Apple Vision detects faces on the Neural Engine and identity matching runs locally. There is no cloud, no account and no tracker, so no face data ever leaves the Mac. Your family's faces are yours.
- Off by default: you decide if and when to enable it
- Detection and matching run on the Neural Engine
- No face data is ever uploaded
Delete face data on your terms
One click deletes face data for a single person, for everything older than a date, or for everything at once. A wedding photographer can clear a couple's face data right after delivering the gallery, which keeps client work GDPR-friendly. The photos stay untouched; only the face data goes.
- Delete per person, older than a date, or all
- One click, GDPR-friendly
- Original files are never modified
Keep exploring
Related pages
Find photos of a person
A step-by-step guide, from naming someone to building an album of every shot of them.
Organize wedding photos
People filters, quality sorting and face-data deletion applied to a wedding archive.
Family photo library
Keep two decades of family photos findable by person, place and description.
AI photo culling
Sort any view by quality and stack it with people-count filters to find the keepers.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Is face recognition on by default?
No. AI People is off by default. You decide if and when to turn it on, and no face is scanned until you do.
Does face data ever leave my Mac?
No. Faces are detected with Apple Vision on the Neural Engine and identity matching runs locally. There is no cloud, no account and no tracker, so no face data ever leaves the Mac.
Can I delete face data later?
Yes, in one click. Delete the data for one person, everything older than a date, or everything at once. A photographer can clear a wedding's face data right after delivering the gallery, which keeps the setup GDPR-friendly.
How many photos do I need to name a person?
A few sample shots are enough. Pick them, type the name once, and PhotoCore matches that person across the rest of your library. From then on, every photo of them is a search away.
Get started free
Put names on your archive
Download PhotoCore free and index up to 200 images to try AI People, @mentions and the people-count filters. Full access is a one-time purchase of 59.99 euro, or 29.99 euro Early Bird until July 15.