To tag your photos on the MyHeritage website, visit “My photos” under the Family tree tab in the navigation bar and click on the photo you’d like to tag. This will open the individual photo page:
It’s a good idea to give the photo a title that will help you understand its contents. You can change the title by clicking on the existing title, editing it, and clicking somewhere else on the screen. You can also add a date and a place for the photo below the title, and in the right-hand sidebar, you can also add keywords and notes under “Details.”
To tag a person in the photo, click “Tag person” under “In the Photo” at the top of the right-hand sidebar. A frame will appear on the photo, which you can drag, drop, and adjust to fit over the face of the individual you wish to tag. Then, start typing the name of the person and select it from the menu.
To tag another person, click on that person’s face and enter their name as you did with the previous tag.
When you’re done tagging, click the X on the pop-up or “Done tagging” on the right-hand sidebar.
Any individuals who have been tagged in a photo will appear in the sidebar. You can click the three dot icon to open a menu allowing you to view all photos of that individual, that person’s profile page, or that person in the tree, or to delete this tag.
Tagging individual photos on the MyHeritage mobile app
To tag people in a photo on the free MyHeritage mobile app, enter the Photos section via the home screen or the app menu, and tap on the photo you wish to tag. Then, tap the tag icon at the top of the screen to activate tagging mode.
Tap on an individual’s face and drag, drop, and adjust the frame, then enter and select the individual’s name in the strip at the top.
To tag another person, tap that person’s face and repeat the process. When you’re done tagging the photo, tap the tag icon again to turn off tagging mode.
Tagging in bulk with Photo Tagger
If you upload a whole bunch of photos together, or if you have a large collection of photos already on MyHeritage that haven’t been tagged yet, you don’t need to go through each photo individually to tag them: you can use Photo Tagger.
Photo Tagger is a handy feature that groups together the faces in your photos that belong to the same individual and allows you to tag them all in one go. Photo Tagger can even identify faces as they change over time — such as from childhood to adulthood — and even spots changes in individual appearance, such as facial hair.
Photo Tagger is currently available on the free MyHeritage mobile app (and will be available for web soon). To access it, make sure you have the latest version of the MyHeritage mobile app from the App Store or Google Play.
To get started, tap “Photos” from the app home screen and then the “Start” button on the top of the Photos section screen.
You can also access Photo Tagger from the app menu:
Before you use Photo Tagger for the first time, you’ll be asked to accept the terms and conditions. Once you accept them, the feature will start scanning your photos to calculate suggestions for photos of the same individual to tag. As long as Photo Tagger is enabled, it will automatically scan any new photos you upload to identify tagging suggestions.
Once your suggestions are ready, you’ll receive an email notification, and a banner will appear at the top of the Photos section on the app to let you know that you can start tagging.
Tap on the banner to view the suggestions. You’ll see a list of groups of photos that the algorithm believes feature the same person. Photo Tagger does its best to automatically identify deceased individuals by name from your family tree, while living individuals will remain unidentified. You can enter the names of unidentified individuals manually. You can also filter the list by Identified and Unidentified groups using the buttons at the top of the screen.
Tap on a group to see the tagging suggestions for that person.
If this individual is unidentified, you’ll need to enter their name at the top. Start typing in the search box and tap on their name.
On the list of suggestions, you’ll see a close-up image of the person’s face side by side with the full original photo, allowing you to view the full context of the photo.
Viewing and organizing your tagged photos
Once your photos have been tagged, it will be much easier for you to keep your photos organized. You’ll be able to instantly pull up all the photos that feature a particular individual in the Photos section of the site by finding the person under “People” in the Photos section of the site or app.
When using List view on the Photos section of the website, you’ll be able to use the “People” filter at the top of the page to view only photos containing people that you select. Click the List view icon next to the Upload button to access List view.
Learn more about organizing and managing your photos in the following MyHeritage Knowledge Base resources: How to Manage Your Photos on MyHeritage how-to video.