How does Memrico recognize the people in my photos?
How Rico gathers photos by person — and the choices you have
This article is a draft. Details of face recognition and its consent settings are still being finalized, and this page will be updated as they settle.
When face recognition is on, Rico — your family's AI — notices the faces in photos added to your space and gathers every photo of the same person together. Name a face once ("Mom"), and every picture of her, past and future, collects under her name. That's what makes "show me photos of Mom" work.
It's always a choice. Face recognition is off until it's turned on, and the decision covers the photos you add — turning it on is consent for your own uploads, not anyone else's. Photos upload and albums work normally either way; this only decides whether Rico groups photos by person.
What's stored: measurements of each face ("face data") from photos added to the space. Face data is private to the space, never used for advertising, and kept only until face recognition is turned off or the data is deleted.
Naming people: open People from your space. Rico shows the faces it has found; tap one, give it a name, and its photos gather. You can fix a wrong grouping from any photo — open the photo's face editor to add, correct, or remove a name.
Deleting face data: any person's face data — or all of it — can be deleted whenever you choose, from the People screen or by turning face recognition off entirely. See What happens if I turn face recognition off?
One ask from us: make sure you have permission from the people in the photos you add. Full details are in our Privacy Policy.