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How to Tag Photos on iPhone
Apr 6, 2025
Article on Cult of Mac: https://www.cultofmac.com/how-to/tag-photos-iphone More Apple news: http://www.cultofmac.com Produced by Extra Ordinary for Cult of Mac Music composed by Will Davenport, arranged by D. Griffin Jones You can quickly tag #photos on your #Apple #iPhone with the names of your friends, family members and pets so you can easily find pictures of them later on. The Photos app will detect pictures of people automatically — you just need to give them a name. I’ll show you how to fine-tune the results as well. Follow us! Threads: https://www.threads.net/@cultofmac Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@cultofmac Instagram: https://instagram.com/cultofmac/ X: https://x.com/cultofmac Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cultofmac
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you can tag photos and videos on your
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iPhone with the name of your friends
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family members and pets so that it's
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super easy to find them later on Your
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iPhone will do it automatically You just
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need to give them the name although you
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can manually fine-tune the results as
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well I'm going to show you how to make
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the most of this awesome
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feature So start by opening the photos
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app Then scroll down to the people and
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pets section and tap the people and pets
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title to see the full thing Tap on
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somebody's face to see all of their
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pictures and tap name this person right
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at the top to match it to somebody in
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your contacts You can also type in a
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custom name if they're not in your
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contacts When it comes to pets the
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system officially supports cats and dogs
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but I had some success in tagging
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raccoons as well although no such love
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for birds lizards snakes or other
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animals At the bottom of the list you'll
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also see an add button Tap on that to
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see the full list of additional people
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you can add to your library If the same
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person is in your photos twice like if
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you have two versions of Tim Cook for
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instance you can merge both sets
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together This often happens if you have
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pictures of somebody starting from when
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they were very young into adulthood or
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if somebody significantly changes their
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appearance Tap on their name at the top
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to rename them and then type in their
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name again You should see both versions
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in the search results Tap on the second
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one to merge it with the first one It'll
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ask if you're sure you want to merge the
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photos and you can tap that or tap
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cancel if it's a mistake The photos app
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will automatically scan through your
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library regularly to add pictures that
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it's confident are of a particular
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person But there's another set of photos
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that it's less sure who the pictures are
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of that you can add manually While
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you're looking at a person tap the more
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button in the upper right and tap on
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their name the first menu item Then you
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can tap review photos identified to see
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all the pictures that you have
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identified are of that person While
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you're in here if you see one that isn't
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a match you can tap on it to unselect it
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Then tap review additional photos and
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it'll show you the pictures that might
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be that person and you can go through
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and confirm whether they are or are not
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Tap done when you're done You can be
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even more granular about manually
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tagging photos On the iPhone when you
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swipe up on a picture you'll see all the
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photos metadata when it was taken where
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it was taken what kind of lens was used
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and more But you'll also see a small row
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of faces that have been identified in
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the picture Tap on one of these faces to
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make sure the photos app has identified
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the right person In a few cases you may
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discover that in a particular set of
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photos one of your friends is identified
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as a completely different person Add in
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their name to merge them as one Photos
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only show somebody in the people in pet
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section if there are a lot of pictures
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of them over a long period of time Going
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through these pictures manually and
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tagging these faces by hand can make
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sure the section is more complete and
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accurate Granted this process is a lot
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easier on a Mac than on an iPhone You
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can go to the menu bar and click view
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show face names You'll see faces circled
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with their name written underneath so
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you can quickly scan through your
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pictures and identify if a picture is
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correctly tagged Once you've tagged all
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the people and pets you know you can
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truly take advantage of the smart search
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feature Tap the blue search button and
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you can combine data like names places
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dates even the contents of the picture
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For example I can search scout indie
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Christmas tree to find holiday photo
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shoots with my dogs You can create a
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grouped set to see all the pictures you
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have of a particular couple family group
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of pets and more In the people and pets
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section next to groups at the top tap
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create and you can select two three four
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up to 32 individuals You'll see a
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rotating collection at the top of the
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people and pet section with the various
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groups you've created And in the main
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list of collections at the root level of
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the photos app one of the sections in
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the photos app is an area called pinned
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collections This is a customizable list
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of any album collection or group of
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photos you want easy access to You can
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add a face or a group to your pinned
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collections Tap modify then scroll down
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and tap add any collection or album You
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can tap to select any person pet or
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group that you want to pin Then you can
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scroll back up and drag the grabbers on
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the right to reorganize the list and tap
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close in the upper right when you're
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done If the tagged photos of someone get
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too muddled up and confused to fix if it
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consistently mixes up you with your
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sibling or if you have a bad habit of
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picking all your best friends based on
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how similarly they look like you it may
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be easier doing a hard reset You can
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untag all of their photos and start over
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Tap on a name to see their photos Tap
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the summary button in the bottom right
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Then tap all Tap select in the upper
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right Then tap select all So every
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picture of that person is now selected
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In the bottom right tap more Then tap
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these are not to untag every single
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picture You might have to wait a day or
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so for your device to process the
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changes but then you can start over with
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that person fresh So be sure to check
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out other videos I've done on the photos
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and camera apps I'm Driffin Jones with
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