People Album not finishing scan, what gives?

[bribri99]

Been like this for over a year

 

[Eddie8]

I’ve had this issue since upgrading from iOS 14 to 15 a while ago. Been stuck on 13565 photos out of 60,000 photos for weeks now.

It seems new photos and videos takes are added to that number and are actually scanned. But these old 13k photos don’t seem to scan.

 

[bribri99]

Anyone asked tech or found out the answer?

 

[alisex747]

Yes I found a solution which worked for me. The issue was coming from videos.
Therefore I saved all my videos on my Mac, deleted them from my iCloud account (they were therefore deleted from my iPhone). Then I reimported them on photo app on my mac and they were therefore reuploaded in the cloud and on my iPhone.
Then iOS scanned all faces during the night and problem was solved

 

[bell0q]

I've had this issue for years. It would sometimes get "fixed" and I'd get a good listing of faces and could perform confirmations, etc. Then the library had an issue and Photos had to "rebuild" it. Faces were gone then. Current library has 30k photos/videos. After the latest Photos crash (using Monterey), it has been 8 weeks with no change to faces recognition. I've made sure to not let the computer sleep, just turn off the display. No CPU-using processes are running.

This library is not connected to iCloud in any one, totally offline. This library is set as the system default library.

Faces always worked reliably under iPhoto. I can say for me, the problems started on the switch to Photos. And no manner of "fixes" and "workarounds" I've found on the internet have made a consistent difference.

 

[iPhoneUZER10]

I got my 13 pro on Friday and my iPhone has been connected to the wall outlet many times but the “people album” still haven’t finished scanning my photo library to detect faces, what gives?

When I go to the people faces album in the photos app it says connect iPhone to power to continue scanning faces in the photo library

To update your people album for the first time, go on to a photo with a person you want to add. Then press the info button (an i with a circle around it). There should be a circle on top of the information ribbon that has a picture of the person with a question mark. Tap that then enter the name of the person. I hope this helped.

 

[grumat]

Hello everybody.
This is the part of the plist contents of the photoanalysisd daemon responsible for the analysis of the photos:

            <key>com.apple.mediaanalysisd.fullanalysis</key>
            <dict>
                <key>AllowBattery</key>
                <false/>
                <key>CPUIntensive</key>
                <true/>
                <key>ExpectedDuration</key>
                <integer>3600</integer>
                <key>Interval</key>
                <integer>7200</integer>
                <key>MemoryIntensive</key>
                <true/>
                <key>PowerNap</key>
                <true/>
                <key>Priority</key>
                <string>Maintenance</string>
                <key>Repeating</key>
                <true/>
                <key>RequireScreenSleep</key>
                <true/>
            </dict>
            <key>com.apple.mediaanalysisd.photos.face</key>
            <dict>
                <key>AllowBattery</key>
                <false/>
                <key>CPUIntensive</key>
                <true/>
                <key>ExpectedDuration</key>
                <integer>7200</integer>
                <key>Interval</key>
                <integer>7200</integer>
                <key>MemoryIntensive</key>
                <true/>
                <key>PowerNap</key>
                <true/>
                <key>Priority</key>
                <string>Maintenance</string>
                <key>Repeating</key>
                <true/>
                <key>RequireScreenSleep</key>
                <true/>
            </dict>
            <key>com.apple.mediaanalysisd.photos.maintenance</key>
            <dict>
                <key>AllowBattery</key>
                <false/>
                <key>Interval</key>
                <integer>86400</integer>
                <key>MemoryIntensive</key>
                <true/>
                <key>Priority</key>
                <string>Maintenance</string>
                <key>Repeating</key>
                <true/>
                <key>RequireScreenSleep</key>
                <true/>
            </dict>
            <key>com.apple.mediaanalysisd.photos.ocr</key>
            <dict>
                <key>AllowBattery</key>
                <false/>
                <key>CPUIntensive</key>
                <true/>
                <key>ExpectedDuration</key>
                <integer>3600</integer>
                <key>Interval</key>
                <integer>7200</integer>
                <key>MemoryIntensive</key>
                <true/>
                <key>PowerNap</key>
                <true/>
                <key>Priority</key>
                <string>Maintenance</string>
                <key>Repeating</key>
                <true/>
                <key>RequireScreenSleep</key>
                <true/>
            </dict>
            <key>com.apple.mediaanalysisd.photos.visualsearch</key>
            <dict>
                <key>AllowBattery</key>
                <false/>
                <key>CPUIntensive</key>
                <true/>
                <key>ExpectedDuration</key>
                <integer>3600</integer>
                <key>Interval</key>
                <integer>7200</integer>
                <key>MemoryIntensive</key>
                <true/>
                <key>PowerNap</key>
                <true/>
                <key>Priority</key>
                <string>Maintenance</string>
                <key>Repeating</key>
                <true/>
                <key>RequireScreenSleep</key>
                <true/>
            </dict>
            <key>com.apple.mediaanalysisd.photosanalysis</key>
            <dict>
                <key>AllowBattery</key>
                <false/>
                <key>CPUIntensive</key>
                <true/>
                <key>ExpectedDuration</key>
                <integer>3600</integer>
                <key>Interval</key>
                <integer>7200</integer>
                <key>MemoryIntensive</key>
                <true/>
                <key>PowerNap</key>
                <true/>
                <key>Priority</key>
                <string>Maintenance</string>
                <key>Repeating</key>
                <true/>
                <key>RequireScreenSleep</key>
                <true/>
            </dict>
            <key>com.apple.mediaanalysisd.preheat</key>
            <dict>
                <key>AllowBattery</key>
                <true/>
                <key>CPUIntensive</key>
                <false/>
                <key>Interval</key>
                <integer>60</integer>
                <key>MemoryIntensive</key>
                <false/>
                <key>PowerNap</key>
                <true/>
                <key>Priority</key>
                <string>Utility</string>
                <key>Repeating</key>
                <false/>
                <key>RequireScreenSleep</key>
                <false/>
            </dict>

Interesting here are AllowBattery and RequireScreenSleep for the com.apple.mediaanalysisd.photos.face service. Conclusion is simple, for laptops, connect to the power. Either case, for "require screen sleep" I understand that you should command Lock Screen. This worked for me...
Maybe some Mac Developer can help us decode all this stuff...