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How to enable face recognition in Google Photos
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Quick guide: App
Quick start guide: Desktop

In this tipps + tricks article, we will show you how you can easily activate face recognition in Google Photos..

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Google Photos Face Recognition is a pretty useful tool because it analyzes your pictures and creates albums for similar faces. And that even works with animals! Unfortunately, it is only officially available in America. But don't worry, with a little trick you can activate face recognition in any country - including here in Germany. Once activated, it is permanently available to you in the Google Photos settings.

Note : If you have activated facial recognition using the VPN trick in the past, you can use the method we have shown to activate it in the app and in the browser. The VPN trick is currently no longer working - as soon as there are updates, we will add the article here.

How to enable face recognition in Google Photos

App

Follow our step-by-step instructions or take a look at the brief instructions ..

1st step:

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Open the Google Photos app . Sign in with your Google account and wait for the setup to finish. Then tap on the three-line menu at the top left.

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Select " Settings " from the menu .

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You will now see the setting " Group similar faces ". Tap on it.

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Now activate " Face grouping ". After activation, it can now take several days until your photos have been completely analyzed, depending on the amount of files.

Desktop

Follow our step-by-step instructions or take a look at the brief instructions .

1st step:

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Open Google Photos and click on the " Settings " entry .

2nd step:

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Scroll down Here you can see the " Group similar faces " setting . Click on it to open more options.

3rd step:

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Now activate " Face grouping ". It can now take several days for your photos to be analyzed, depending on how many photos you have.

Quick guide: App

  1. In Google Photos, tap the three-line menu in the upper left corner, then tap " Settings ".
  2. Now go to " Like Faces group " and then click to " Faces grouping ". It can now take several days for all of your photos to be analyzed.

Quick start guide: Desktop

  1. Open the following link and log in with your Google credentials: https://photos.google.com/ . Then select " Settings " on the left.
  2. Now click on " Group similar faces " and activate " Face grouping ". You will now have to wait several days for all of your photos to be analyzed.

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