# Eyes Up Here! Apple's Photos App for OSX thinks women's bare breasts are faces **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 12, 2015, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eyes-up-here-apples-photos-app-for-osx-thinks-womens-bare-breasts-are-faces/727659 "2015-08-12T14:36:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2015, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eyes-up-here-apples-photos-app-for-osx-thinks-womens-bare-breasts-are-faces/727659/1 "2015-08-12T14:36:27Z")
I recently discovered the “Faces” functionality on Apple’s Photos app—which is intended to replace iPhoto as the general photo management application on Mac OS. The Faces function will automatically mark with a circle anything in an image that it recognizes as a human face. It seems to be very good at this, although it often misses a face if it isn’t facing the camera more or less straight on and upright. I started goofing around with it and discovered, however, that Photos also seems to think that women’s bare breasts are human faces, even when only one breasts is showing. So Photos seems to suffer from the common male foible of looking a woman in the chest. ---
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2015, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eyes-up-here-apples-photos-app-for-osx-thinks-womens-bare-breasts-are-faces/727659/2 "2015-08-12T14:44:25Z")
That’s called a “Feature” and it will save you precious microns by highlighting the sections you’re truly interested in. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2015, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eyes-up-here-apples-photos-app-for-osx-thinks-womens-bare-breasts-are-faces/727659/3 "2015-08-12T14:48:11Z")
I’m sorry, I can’t understand what you’re trying to convey. Could you post some pictures to help explain this? ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2015, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eyes-up-here-apples-photos-app-for-osx-thinks-womens-bare-breasts-are-faces/727659/4 "2015-08-12T14:48:58Z")
> [@G0sp3l](#): > > That’s called a “Feature” and it will save you precious microns by highlighting the sections you’re truly interested in. Microns?? What, are you on the Galactica? 🙂 While highlighting breasts might be considered a “feature”, I have found that Faces also tags tires, cupcakes and sometimes a random shaded part of a tree as a face. And of course, there’s no way to turn off this “feature”. Thanks, Apple. for becoming more like Microsoft every day. ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2015, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eyes-up-here-apples-photos-app-for-osx-thinks-womens-bare-breasts-are-faces/727659/5 "2015-08-12T16:18:49Z")
What are these “bare breasts” that you talk about (OOC, what the hell are you looking at on your Computer, :D). I need to see sample. Copious samples. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2015, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eyes-up-here-apples-photos-app-for-osx-thinks-womens-bare-breasts-are-faces/727659/6 "2015-08-12T17:15:35Z")
My, what nice big, round _eyes_ you have! ---
**Author:** ![Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b487fb/32.png) [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walken_After_Midnight)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2015, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eyes-up-here-apples-photos-app-for-osx-thinks-womens-bare-breasts-are-faces/727659/7 "2015-08-12T17:27:48Z")
Hey, careful you don’t poke me in the eye with one of your eyes! ---
**Author:** ![leftfield6](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leftfield6/32/18780_2.png) [@leftfield6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leftfield6)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2015, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eyes-up-here-apples-photos-app-for-osx-thinks-womens-bare-breasts-are-faces/727659/8 "2015-08-12T17:55:25Z")
It’s my understanding that these types of face recognition software look for a pair of eyes as the first clue that “Hey, this might be a face” functionality. A pair of boobies, especially one where there is a, er, darker area in the middle will trick the software. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2015, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eyes-up-here-apples-photos-app-for-osx-thinks-womens-bare-breasts-are-faces/727659/9 "2015-08-12T17:56:43Z")
I think many men have the same bug, which explains where we tend to look. “But I thought that was your face!” ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2015, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eyes-up-here-apples-photos-app-for-osx-thinks-womens-bare-breasts-are-faces/727659/10 "2015-08-13T03:43:51Z")
Conversely, don’t photo-sharing apps often think they see boobies where there aren’t any, and refuse to allow the picture accordingly? I seem to recall a case that got well-publicized a while back. Women in bath tub, mostly covered with bubble-bath suds, with part of arms and elbows sticking out. App thought elbow was a boob, and rejected the pic.