I want to know if anyone else has seen this bug. Also, I did submit a bug report to apple, but I do not expect that to go anywhere...
In the photos app I have my father's person/face defined and my son's person/face defined. I connected each of them to the contact I have for each. The contacts entries only share one detail: last name.
Under this scenario, the photos app will automatically merge these two people on the photos app, and eliminate my father's person/face.
To get around this in iOS 11 I created a new person called "<fathers name> Photo" rather than connecting to the contacts entry.
Since updating to iOS 12, I reconnected my father's person/face to the contact and behind my back, it merged them again.
I found this also happened with my wife and her sister, but they are close in age and look quite similar. My father and son are separated by about 70 years.
Has anyone else seen this? Do you know if there is some artifact in some field in the contacts app that may be triggering this? I also have myself and my brother in the people album and our contacts connected. We also look quite similar, and share our last name in the contacts app, but it has never merged us behind my back.
In the photos app I have my father's person/face defined and my son's person/face defined. I connected each of them to the contact I have for each. The contacts entries only share one detail: last name.
Under this scenario, the photos app will automatically merge these two people on the photos app, and eliminate my father's person/face.
To get around this in iOS 11 I created a new person called "<fathers name> Photo" rather than connecting to the contacts entry.
Since updating to iOS 12, I reconnected my father's person/face to the contact and behind my back, it merged them again.
I found this also happened with my wife and her sister, but they are close in age and look quite similar. My father and son are separated by about 70 years.
Has anyone else seen this? Do you know if there is some artifact in some field in the contacts app that may be triggering this? I also have myself and my brother in the people album and our contacts connected. We also look quite similar, and share our last name in the contacts app, but it has never merged us behind my back.