How to activate automatic face detection in Google Photos
Web Services Android / / December 19, 2019
Most recently, I told you about 10 reasons to choose Google Photos to store your photos. All good this service, but the face recognition function in our country is not working. In this article you will learn how easy it is to eliminate this unfortunate misunderstanding.
Google Photos service has a very powerful algorithms for object recognition in images. He is able to detect the downloaded images of various objects, places, situations, and then easy to give collections in the search results.
Especially useful this function is to filter people depicted in the photographs. With its help, you can one-click to select among tens of thousands of files, photos of a specific person, even if it is imprinted on them from different angles and clothing. Unfortunately, the face recognition is currently working only in a limited range of countries.
To enable people to recognize the function of pictures in Google Photos, without waiting for the queue will reach to your country, do the following.
1. Open the settings of your smartphone or tablet running Android. In the "Applications" get Google Photos program.
2. Open Google Photos features, and then click "Clear data." Confirm this action.
3. Go to the Google Play Store and install it on your mobile device is one of the VPN-applications that allow mask location. I used TunnelBear.
4. Run the installed program and install the VPN-connection. As a result, everything will look like this, as if you are in the United States.
5. Open the Google Photos app and go through the initial setup process again. In the program options you will see now a new option "Group similar faces". Activate it.
We have included the automatic recognition of people in the pictures in the mobile application and the Web service. TunnelBear program can now be removed if you do not need it, and to use the Google Photos in the usual way - you have activated the function will still be available.