On Photos face tagging and workflowability
Face tagging in Photos frustrates me sometimes. I know everyone uses apps like Photos differently and cares about different things. My wife & I mainly use Photos to keep track of the family photo library (around 30k pics over 10 years). About half come from iPhones, the rest Canon or Nikon. We curate out the bad or redundant, but err on the side of keeping more (not every shot has to be a masterpiece). We crop and tweak, but aren't heavy editors. We do albums for vacations or events (~10 albums per year) and do one photobook per year. And we feel strongly about having everything facetagged and geotagged correctly. Caring about facetagging is where frustrations come from. The machine learning algorithm's suggestions aren't perfect (I'll write a separate post about that), but that doesn't bother me too much. Such algorithms will never tag everything right: you can't expect an AI to know which kid is behind a Batman mask or who that person is with their b