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samduffy Im happy i noticed and friends a particular persons face would show one amount on one device in people album and another amount for the same persons face on the other. so maybe thats why. either way I'm happy I wanted this from day 1
Yeah I was almost gonna blame you for this change in People.
It's rather confusing if on one device you have 254 photos of one person and on another 245.
It could be, as you suggested, that they removed the digits to stop people from worrying too much.
I think the algorithm to scan for faces is run differently on every device, and that that leads to different numbers on each device. It's not likely the amount indicator will come back anytime soon until Apple figures a way to standardize the algorithm for every device. It's also a possibility they will introduce syncing of the People album over iCloud.