iPhoto ’11: The Macintosh iLife Guide to using iPhoto with OS X Lion and iCloud

Forgetting a Face

The time may come when you want to remove someone’s tile from your corkboard. (And that, I assure you, is the most interesting euphemism for “break up” that you’ll read in this book.) It’s easy: select the person’s tile, then press -Delete. iPhoto asks if you really want to delete that person from your list of faces. To confirm the deed, click Delete Face.

Besides a parting of the ways, there are other reasons why you might delete a face. Maybe you accidentally confirmed a bunch of misidentified photos, and you want to start over. And incidentally, you can delete multiple face tiles in one fell swoop: Shift-click each one or enclose ...