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Michael22575087a3dw
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January 9, 2022
Question

Lightroom won't stop facial recognition

  • January 9, 2022
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I was typing a folder name when lightroom opened and whatever I was typing must have started facial recogniction. "pausing" it in the upper corner does not stop the process at all and everything I found online doesnt seem to do anything!

Looking for help on how to stop it as i am afriad itll crash the app or my computer if it continues!

 

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AxelMatt
Community Expert
AxelMattCommunity Expert
Community Expert
January 10, 2022

You can disable the face recognition in the catalog settings.

Following the steps below:

  1. (Mac) Select Lightroom Classic > Catalog Settings.
        (Windows) Select Edit > Catalog Settings.
  2. On the "Metadata" tab, deselect the option "Automatically Detect All Faces In All Photos".
  3. Close the catalog settings dialog box.
My System: Intel i7-8700K - 64GB RAM - NVidia Geforce RTX 3060 - Windows 11 Pro 25H2 -- LR-Classic 15 - Photoshop 27 - Nik Collection 8 - PureRAW 6 - Topaz Photo AI
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davidd5217385
Participant
February 16, 2025

Tried this.  The metadata tab was already deselected, but good ole lightroom just kept throwing faces on the screen.  So this doesn't always work.  Any other ideas.   I absolutely hate this feature.

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    delcrom
    Participant
    June 5, 2025

    Got the same issue: reading faces although the choice is deselected.

     

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