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Re:Every Mac comes with an (undocumented) family member clas... by dylan604 on Saturday November 07, 2026 @12:02PM (#50406071)
> given that Photos knows the names and faces of all the loved ones in my life.

Does it know this based on something other than you told it a name for a face at some point? I have plenty of people where Photos sees an unidentified person, and they remain unidentified as I have not named them. It also knows my pets because I've also named them. Until I manually set the name, Photos did not "know" them.

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Re:Every Mac comes with an (undocumented) family member clas... by judge2020 on Saturday November 07, 2026 @12:08PM (#50406135)
I think(?) it also figures it out from the contact photo you give someone and matching from that. Not everyone puts photos on their contacts though.
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Re:Every Mac comes with an (undocumented) family member clas... by dylan604 on Saturday November 07, 2026 @04:54PM (#50408395)
I don't trust people that push their contact info like that. That's something from an entirely different generation that I just can't grok
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Re:Every Mac comes with an (undocumented) family member clas... by jen20 on Saturday November 07, 2026 @11:42PM (#50410470)
I would _LOVE_ an option in iOS to say "don't accept these from anyone, and regardless of what you think about in the future, never send one either" that is honored indefinitely.
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