Starting with Ventura (macOS 13) my mid-2012 (non-retina) MacBook Pro stopped correctly recognizing faces in Photos. Unfortunately, Ventura was also the first macOS which allowed a Shared Photo Library.
I've been continually trying new macOS, and new OCLP. But since Catalina facial recognition has stopped being even remotely correct. It seems random.
Have been using a collection of family photos, and uploading them to a clean account's Photos, to see how each new combo of macOS and OCLP perform.
Can anyone else with a mid-2012 MBP confirm this is the case for them too?
While 2.0.1 now allows us to disable mediaanalysisd service, and thus possibly avoiding wrong-face corruption of a Photo Library, it also means I can't use this 2012 MBP as a useful Photos device.
It is not mentioned on Dortania, and they're closed to bug submissions. So I'm hoping folks here can help clarify if they're experiencing the same issue on such old hardware too. I don't see a lot of people here ever mentioning Photos facial recognition.
My Hardware:
2.7 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7
NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M 1GB
Intel HD Graphics 4000 1536 MB
16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
macOS Sequoia 15.0
1680x1050 Display
...to re-summarize my experience...
Very small subset of faces are ever scanned.
What is scanned, is incorrectly identified, to the point of randomness. Can't retrain to any accuracy.
...I've also got an M1 Mac (as reference) and I've had working facial recognition on the MBP 2012 since Catalina. So I feel like I know what reasonable expectations are for facial recognition. I'd not be concerned if it was just making a few mistakes.
Unfortunately I did (foolishly) buy 2 of MBP 2012 with the intention of using them exclusively for Photos. But without Shared Photo Library and also recognizing faces, the 2012 MBP are now sitting idle except for running this Photos test on every OCLP update.
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