Enable face recognition: Google photos to recognize your favorite faces
After activation, it may take several weeks to get your photos from Google be analysed faces automatically and grouped. It is especially important that you will need for all your photos of the "Back Up & sync" to enable.
- You completely dismiss the Google photos App and open a VPN App. A free variant such as tunnel bear VPN (Android, iOS) is sufficient completely.
- You can activate the VPN in the United States and open the Google photos App.
- With the click of the three horizontal lines the top left to open the menu. Below you will find the settings.
- Select the menu item "find Similar faces group" and enable the "Face group".

Enable face recognition in Google photos
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