face keyword not being removed

Question

I have multiple photos that are showing multiple recognized / named faces.

For some photos I want to remove all of the named faces (mostly group photos, keeping the faces with single persons etc).

I select each visible face rectangle in turn and click on the X in the corner and the face rectangle gets removed and the matching keyword is also removed from the keyword panel.

This works until I get to the very last face on the photo, this last face rectangle goes away but the face keyword stays undeleted in the keywords panel, I need to manually delete the last keyword in the keywords panel.

Why would it work for all the previous deletions but not the last one?

I had my keywords panel closed before I realized why I seemed to keep missing removing these keywords on the photos when reviewing them later.

I restarted Lightroom & PC and tried it with a new catalog with same issue in both.

Using LrC 15.5.1 on Win11

johnrellis · Answer

One possibility is that person keyword may be assigned to another photo directly, not via a face rectangle in People view. In the Keyword List panel, hover the mouse over that keyword, and click the right-arrow that magically appears to the right of the keyword. That will show all the photos to which that keyword has been assigned directly or via a face rectangle.

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