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General Pet recognition in Photos yet?

ZEEN0j

ZEEN0j

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This has worked for me since you could start searching your photos. I can search dog, cat and bear and I find photos and videos. So should definitely work in iOS 12 as well.
 
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sevenseconds

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ZEEN0j said:
This has worked for me since you could start searching your photos. I can search dog, cat and bear and I find photos and videos. So should definitely work in iOS 12 as well.
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You can search for generic cats and dogs but you can’t search for your personal cats and dogs. In other words, Google Photos allows you to have a contact card for your animal and then recognize that specific animal when it appears in Photos. Was hoping Apple would implement this - seems like a trivial thing to do since Photos can recognize people
 
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TimFL1

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I added a face entry for my dog on macOS (allows you to manually add a face without having to wait for scans) but I don‘t think it suggests the face in other pictures of my dog.

I did get a „Four-legged friends“ memory a few days ago though with just my dog in it. Although I think that‘s just a coincidence because I don‘t think I have any pictures of other dogs.
 
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While I don't think you can search for your pet's name, you can search dog, cat, bird, etc and pictures of the specific animal should show up. I might try adding my dog and cat's names to the faces section and see what happens though. :eek:
 
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sevenseconds

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TimFL1 said:
I added a face entry for my dog on macOS (allows you to manually add a face without having to wait for scans) but I don‘t think it suggests the face in other pictures of my dog.

I did get a „Four-legged friends“ memory a few days ago though with just my dog in it. Although I think that‘s just a coincidence because I don‘t think I have any pictures of other dogs.
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Alright think that settles it. Photos has everything I want from Google Photos except for this. Thanks for testing it out!
 
Feenician

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As much as I like this feature it does have some amusing false positives. My cat shows up in a search for dog quite a few times and I have a couple of weird ones when searching for cat.

This is a dog, apparently

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This video apparently shows a cat (this is just a screenshot, but I assure you nothing cat-like appears later)

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I’m nitpicking a bit. These are exceptions, this is all done on device and I know they’re working on the ML stuff.
 
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j-a-x

j-a-x

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I tried searching for “dog” in photos and sure enough there are a few photos of my cat. One of them shows up under the keyword “Newfoundland dog” which I find particularly funny.

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high3r

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It's been a feature since iOS 11. You can even search for specific breeds. For e.g retriever correctly list photos of my beautiful golden retriever. :)
 
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