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Update: June 9, 2023 (1:50 PM ET): Google has acknowledged this feature and confirmed to us how it works.
"We continuously improve our ability to help people organize and find photos of themselves and loved ones. Recently, we improved our models so Google Photos can better group people based on clothing and other visual cues across photos taken within a similar timeframe.."
Original article: June 8, 2023 (7:39 AM ET): Facial recognition has been one of the hallmark features of Google Photos since the app’s release, but it’s recently gotten a lot more powerful. I’ve just noticed a silent improvement that has made Photos capable of recognizing the back of people’s heads as a person and tagging them correctly with the right name. This is happening regardless of whether I uploaded these pics to Google Photos a week ago or a couple of years ago.
Google confirms Photos can now "facially" recognize you from behind (Updated)
Google Photos is now doing facial recognition on the backs of people's heads and properly tagging your friends and family members from behind.
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