Facial recognition is one of the most popular features on Google Photos, Facebook Photos, Apple Photos, which recognize face and automatically arrange your photos based on people's faces. Facial recognition is available inside Android, iPhone, iPad and the web version of Google Photos. If you are not seeing it in your account yet, because your accessing Photos from outside the United States.
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A footnote on the Google Photos website says that “Facial recognition" feature isn’t available in all countries, probably due to privacy laws, but there’s a simple trick that will help you bring face detection in your Google Photos.
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Now you can uninstall or disable the VPN app, launch Google Photos again and tap the blue search button. You should see a list of faces that Google Photos was able to detect from your uploaded photos. And the feature will automatically become available on photos.google.com as well.
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A footnote on the Google Photos website says that “Facial recognition" feature isn’t available in all countries, probably due to privacy laws, but there’s a simple trick that will help you bring face detection in your Google Photos.
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How to Enable Facial Recognition in Your Google Photos
- Go to your Android phone settings, select “Apps”, then select “Photos” under the “Downloaded” section and click the “Clear Data” button to reset your Google Photos app.
- Go to the Google Play store and download Tunnel Bear or Hola or any of your favorite VPN apps.
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- Open the VPN app and connect. It will essentially trick Photos into thinking that you are connecting from US, a country that is supported by Google Photos for facial recognition.
- Open the Google Photos app, scroll past the wizard screen and then under Settings, enable the option that says “Group Similar Faces – Auto Group photos by matching faces.”
Now you can uninstall or disable the VPN app, launch Google Photos again and tap the blue search button. You should see a list of faces that Google Photos was able to detect from your uploaded photos. And the feature will automatically become available on photos.google.com as well.