What happens if I turn face recognition off?
What's deleted, what's kept, and how to confirm
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.
Turning face recognition off permanently deletes the face data — the face measurements, the groupings, and the named people — for the space. Your photos are not touched; every picture stays exactly where it is. The only thing that goes away is Rico's ability to gather photos by person.
To turn it off:
- Open your Profile and find Privacy → Face Recognition.
- Switch it off.
- Because deletion is permanent, Memrico asks you to type delete to confirm — this isn't a setting you can trip over by accident.
What's deleted: all face data, face groupings, and person names for the space. What's kept: every photo, every album, every comment. Nothing visible changes except the People view, which empties.
This can't be undone. If face recognition is turned on again later, Rico starts fresh — it can find faces in photos again, but the names you'd assigned are gone and need to be given again.
Deleting just one person's face data: you don't have to turn everything off. Open People, tap Select, choose the person, and tap Delete face data.