Apple iOS 15 tips and tricks: how to share faces with your household in Home on iPhone

The Home app’s face recognition feature happens to be very useful for monitoring your home. Face Recognition helps you identify people by the faces that appear in your photo library or pictures of recent visitors captured by your camera or doorbell. You can allow the members of your household to see the names of visitors identified in your photo library. In this article, we will tell you how you can share the faces of the visitors with your household in Home on iPhone.

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What is face recognition?

Face Recognition is a feature that identifies people by the faces that appear in your photo library or pictures of recent visitors captured by your camera or doorbell. With a compatible camera or doorbell, you can use the Home app to receive notifications when people you’ve tagged in the Photos app come to your door.

What is the Home app?

The Home app helps you to securely control and automate HomeKit-enabled accessories, such as lights, smart TVs, and thermostats.

When you set up supported security cameras, you can capture video, and receive a notification when a camera recognizes someone at your door or when a package is left at the door. You can also open a compatible lock with a home key, group multiple speakers to play the same audio, and send and receive Intercom messages on supported devices. With Home, you can control any Works with Apple HomeKit accessory using iPhone.

How to share faces with your Household:

Step1: With Face Recognition turned on, open the Home app, tap the Homes and Home Settings button, then tap Home Settings.

Step2: Tap Cameras & Doorbells below Notifications, then tap Face Recognition.

Step3: Tap your photo library, then tap Everyone in this Home.