How to Change a Person’s Key Photo

If you are using the “People” section of Photos on your Mac, you may have noticed that the application does not always choose the most … flattering pictures to represent the people you love.

Yes Yes. My friends are only gray boxes.

In fact, based on the images chosen, I have to assume that Apple has a sort of algorithm of “worst photo selection”. At least, that’s what I decided to believe. It’s better than thinking that yes, I really look like that, and the pictures do not lie to me.

Anyway, if you want to change the representative image that appears in “People” – which Apple has dubbed “Key Photo” – for one of your identified faces, here’s how you do it. To start, you will click on the “People” sidebar in Photos to access this section.



Then double-click on the person whose key photo you want to edit.



Once you are in the album of a person, find the photo you want to use as a key photo, then right-click or right-click the mouse. In the pop-up menu that appears, select “Create key photo”.



And that’s all! Not only will your “People” main view be updated to reflect the change, but if you use the iCloud Photo Library for synchronization, you will also see the new Key Photo on your other devices. One more thing: you may notice that there is actually a menu command and a keyboard shortcut for this action, displayed under the “Image” menu at the top.If you lost videos from iOS Camerall Roll which are nowhere to download again, you can use Gihosoft iPhone Data Recovery to get back deleted videos from iOS device including iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.

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Strangely, this command does not seem to work in the “People” section, at least on my Mac; it will work in new albums that I create, but if I try to activate it with “People”, it gets grayed out. So you can use Image> Make a key photo in your albums, but you will use this contextual menu for the “People” section. Bizarre. Perhaps there is a reason for this particular decision regarding the user interface, but I have not been able to understand it.

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