Media library/Face recognition
Adding a face to a person
How club admins link a detected face to someone already in the people library instead of creating a duplicate.
Use this article to add a detected face to a person who is already in your people library, instead of creating a duplicate person record.
People Recognition is an add-on, and a club admin must turn it on under Settings → People Recognition before you can manage people. Only club admins can link faces to existing people.
When to add a face to an existing person instead of creating one
Add a face to an existing person when Clipido detected the same individual under Unknown people, but that person is already named in your library. Linking the face keeps one person record and improves future automatic matching across uploads.
If you are naming a face for the first time with no existing person record, use the create flow instead: Open Add to people and Click Create in the "Add to people library" dialog.
Adding a face through the name autocomplete
- Open an unknown face from "Media → People" or from the upload "Face detection" step, as described in the create-person workflow.
- click Add to people to open the "Add to people library" dialog.
- In the "Name" field, start typing an existing person's name. Pick their name from the suggestions. If no one matches, the field shows "No matching people."
- When an existing person is selected, the primary button changes from "Create" to "Add to person".
- click Add to person.
A toast shows "Adding to existing person..." On success, the toast reads "Person added to people library". On failure, it reads "Failed to add person".
Adding a face through the Existing person dialog
This path appears when you type a name that already exists in the library.
- In the "Add to people library" dialog, enter a name and click Create.
- Clipido opens the "Existing person" dialog with the description "This person may already exist in the people library."
- Under "Existing people with this name", click the correct person.
A toast shows "Adding to existing person..." On success, the toast reads "Person added to existing person".
Alternatively, under "Create new person", click the face card if you intentionally want a second person record with the same name.
What you should see after linking the face
The face appears under Library instead of Unknown people in Media preview and in the upload "Face recognition" view.
In Settings → People Recognition, the person's detection count increases after Clipido finishes searching for more matching photos. While that search runs, the card can show "Detecting person..."
Limitation: faces are not removed from a previous person
Clipido cannot unlink a face from one person and move it to another in a single step. Adding a face to a person does not remove that face from any other person it was linked to before.
If a face was matched to the wrong person, add it to the correct person, create a new person record, or delete the wrong person from Settings → People Recognition. Clipido cannot unlink a single face from one person in one step today.
If a face is already in the library, "Add to people" is disabled with the tooltip "Already added to people library".