Apple Photos – How to view all unnamed faces – Solved

I finally discovered the secret for creating a smart album that only shows photos that do NOT have people or pets identified in Apple Photos on MacOS.¹²

1. Create a smart album with the criteria “person/pet” -> “does not contain” -> =”A” (It will suggest a name from the database to place here but just change it manually.)
2. Repeat creating rules using the same criteria but with the all the other vowels.
3. Next create a rule for “person/pet” -> “is” -> “<blank>”. By blank I mean remove all characters from the textfield. This should filter out all of the photos without a face.
4. Lastly create a rule for “photo” -> “is not” -> “screenshots”.

Here is the smart album:

I also created one for unmarked GPS locations.

1. My source for this information comes via Apple Discussion Forums[↩]
2. It doesn’t work if at least one of the other people in the photo are named but it’s a pretty good start.[↩]