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P: Assign People tags to pictures that were missed

LEGEND ,
Oct 27, 2018 Oct 27, 2018

Once the indexing has been completed and Lightroom CC has found all the potential faces, it would be nice to have the ability to add People Tags to pictures that were "missed" where no faces were recognized.  The idea of People Tags is to be able to search for people and generate all potential results.  Right now it's messy because you have to resort to keyword tags to identify people that were missed with facial recognition and makes searching and cataloging a tedious task.

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Adobe Employee , Nov 09, 2021 Nov 09, 2021

Just to wade in here to support Rikk and Victoria -- I am a Product Manager on the Lightroom team.  We work with Rikk to review this forum including feature requests.  We definitely hear you that we can make improvements both in the face detection tech as well as supporting manual face selection.  We do use the feedback and votes to help determine our priorities, so please know that you are being listened to.  

 

Additionally, I guess when we migrated forum data, we ended up marking some feature

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Community Expert ,
Apr 08, 2024 Apr 08, 2024

Add faces (not people, and your image does not contain faces) is an option in Lightroom Classic. It does not exist in Lightroom desktop, so I merged this with the feature request.

 

-- Johan W. Elzenga
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Explorer ,
Jul 18, 2024 Jul 18, 2024

It's been almost 3 years since the answer from Peter @ Adobe.

Still no feature to add people's tag when not recognised....

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New Here ,
Dec 31, 2024 Dec 31, 2024

Just signed up for Lightroom CC. I am also extrememly dissapointed with the People recognition. The ability to manually assign People to a photo is a priority feature in my opinion.  Why offer spmething that doesn't work properly, Adobe?

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New Here ,
Apr 13, 2025 Apr 13, 2025

Still no ability to tag people that aren't autodetected. Really disappointing that such basic functionality hasn't existed for so many years.

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New Here ,
Jun 29, 2025 Jun 29, 2025

The lack of ability to manually assign people to photos is the single reason why I won't switch to Lightroom cloud.

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Participant ,
Jun 29, 2025 Jun 29, 2025

Sadly, I find LR CC very useful but the lack of manually adding faces, inability to have tags and info sidebars on the same sidebar irks me more than somewhat. 
it would so wonderful if they could fight their way to the top of the wishlist. 

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New Here ,
Jul 19, 2025 Jul 19, 2025

I've searched everywhere, and I can't find a current answer that says whether we can do the simple task of manually adding faces in Lightroom 8.4. I've found answers from years ago saying we can't do that "yet". It's definitely the 'yet' time five+ years later. Please tell me they've added the ability to manually add faces (something Classic and Apple Photos has allowed for years and years), and it's just buried in some features nest in the app. 

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Community Expert ,
Jul 20, 2025 Jul 20, 2025

@Surfdeprived 

 

Nope. That feature is still not available.

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Participant ,
Jul 20, 2025 Jul 20, 2025

I am guessing that Hell will freeze over before any useful features are added or restored to LR.  Manual face tagging, allowing combinations of sidebar to be visible etc.  Half the time I am pleased that I migrated to LR CC and the other half  I consider it the biggest mistake I made.

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Explorer ,
Jul 20, 2025 Jul 20, 2025

It is very difficult to believe that such a long time has passed, and the very basics are still not there. This is true for manual face detection, for smart albums (currently useless), search with and-or, map view...

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New Here ,
Jul 22, 2025 Jul 22, 2025
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I have many photos where facial recognition has not picked up a person (canded etc) - And it appears in CC you can not manually add a person tag like you can in classic. Is there a way to do this?

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