Bulk ignore people from the details view of a photo

[laurenspriem]

Ported from issue raised by @RayBB

Problem

A common use case is taking photos of someone I know where there are many strangers in the background. In these cases, I want to tag the person I know and quickly ignore all other detected faces in that specific photo.

Currently, when opening a photo and viewing the details panel, I can see all detected faces in that photo. However:

• Each face must be tapped individually and then tapping ignore and going back
• There is no way to long-press and select multiple faces
• There is no bulk action to ignore several faces at once

When a photo contains many background faces (sometimes 20+), ignoring them one by one is tedious and frustrating.

Current behavior

• In the photo details panel, detected faces are shown
• Faces can only be acted on individually
• Multi-select is not supported in this view

Expected behavior

• Allow long-press to select multiple faces directly from the photo details panel
• Provide a bulk action (e.g. “Ignore selected faces”)
• Match the existing multi-select behavior already available in the People view when you "Show more faces"

Why this matters

The People view already supports multi-select and bulk ignore, but that workflow doesn’t work well when the goal is to clean up faces only for a specific photo. Enabling multi-select in the photo details panel would:

• Dramatically reduce friction when dealing with background strangers
• Make face tagging faster and more intuitive
• Be a meaningful quality-of-life improvement for real-world photo collections

[corrigami]

Any updates on this? I have quite a few pictures of sporting events with hundreds of faces in that is making the facial recognition algorithm struggle to correctly learn (this also might be to do with blurry images and hard to identify facial features, but this would solve that issue for me very easily)

[rahulraman0108]

I created a PR #10498 that should implement this feature multi-select faces in the photo details to ignore on mobile. I checked it working on Android, but I do not have an apple device so can't check for iOS.

[laurenspriem]

This has been merged to main - thanks to the great work of @rahulraman0108 - so it will be out in the next release!