Tagged Faces from iPhone

[bob.bourg at gmail.com]

Lukas,

Adding to Paul Norman's comments, I believe it depends on how you are transferring the photos from the iPhone to your computer.  I believe the iPhone will strip face tags and other personal data from the photos if you use your computer's download app or some other third-party transfer software.

If you have set your iPhone to sync with iCloud, you can download the photos from iCloud.com using a browser.  This is the way I do it, and it preserves the face tags regions set by the iPhone regardless of whether you choose to download the JPEG or HEIC version.  I just tested this again on a PC and confirmed both the JPEG and HEIC versions with exiftool.  However, I believe this process will not transfer any names that the iPhone has applied to the face tag regions since that it is still considered personal data, but the face tag regions are preserved.  I don't add names to the faces on my iPhone and prefer to do it in digiKam.

My workflow is to copy the files I have downloaded from iCloud to a digiKam album folder and Scan for New Items.  With digiKam 8.0.0 and the exiftool integration, you can then view and apply names to the face tags in the HEIC files.  

Hope this helps.

Bob 

-----Original Message-----
From: Lukas B. <lukasb314 at gmail.com> 
Sent: Monday, April 10, 2023 3:05 PM
To: digikam-users at kde.org
Subject: Re: Tagged Faces from iPhone

Thank you.

Basically it looks really usefull.

However, I'm not using Apples photo app on the Mac at all. And I have no intention to start using it as an eventual work around for transfering the face tags.

Cheers,
Lukas



Am 09.04.23 um 15:01 schrieb Travis Kelley:
> While I have not used this, I did a bit of research a while back while 
> thinking about switching to iphone. Have a look at osxphotos.  I think 
> it may do what you're looking for
> 
> https://github.com/RhetTbull/osxphotos 
> <https://github.com/RhetTbull/osxphotos>
> 
> On Sun, Apr 9, 2023, 4:16 AM Lukas B. <lukasb314 at gmail.com <mailto:lukasb314 at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi Paul,
> 
>     I'm aware of the information that can be found on the internet.
> 
>     I was hoping that maybe somebody of you might have more insight in this topic.
> 
>     Thanks to you all!
> 
>     Best regards,
>     Lukas
> 
> 
> 
>     Am 09.04.23 um 03:40 schrieb Paul A. Norman:
>      > Hi Lukas,
>      >
>      > A lot of older postings around the web suggest exploring any available “export” feature (and its
>      > options), on any app on your phone that currently can both show your pictures and the tags
>     you want.
>      > I can't yet find clear information on any compatibility process that Apple follows on all
>     this, that
>      > helps facilitate transfer to other systems / approaches to handling ‘faces information’
>     outside Apple.
>      >
>      > Cheers,
>      > Paul
>      >
>     ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>      > https://PaulANorman.info <https://PaulANorman.info> <https://PaulANorman.info
>     <https://PaulANorman.info>>
>      >
>      >
>      > On 9 April 2023 10:09:27 am NZST, "Lukas B." <lukasb314 at gmail.com
>     <mailto:lukasb314 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>      >
>      >     Hi Gilles,
>      >
>      >     that's what I'm wondering. I can't find any information there.
>      >
>      >     Maybe I just didn't see it, or:
>      >
>      >     Is it possible that the iPhone stores this information in a separate data base just on
>     the phone?
>      >
>      >     Cheers,
>      >     Lukas
>      >
>      >
>      >     Am 08.04.23 um 18:04 schrieb Gilles Caulier:
>      >
>      >         where are stored the faces information ? in image metadata i hope ?
>      >
>      >         Best
>      >         Gilles Caulier
>      >
>      >         Le sam. 8 avr. 2023 à 17:56, Lukas B. <lukasb314 at gmail.com
>     <mailto:lukasb314 at gmail.com>> a écrit :
>      >
>      >
>      >             Hi everone,
>      >
>      >             when I transfer my iPhone photos to my computer and import them into digikam, all
>     of the
>      >             face tags
>      >             (created by the iPhone) are gone.
>      >
>      >             What is the issue there?
>      >
>      >
>      >             Thanks,
>      >             Lukas
>      >
> 

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