Hide "Private" Photos from Thumbnails for People #1364

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opened 2026-02-20 00:11:17 -05:00 by deekerman · 3 comments

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2026-02-20 00:11:17 -05:00

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Originally created by @mikob on GitHub (Mar 21, 2022).

When I go to people, the thumbnail photos that photoprism chooses are sometimes photos I've marked as "private". Ideally I could change the photo that photoprism chooses to represent a person there, or at least photoprism wouldn't use private photos. It seems photoprism chooses the least flattering photos I have of everyone 😆

Originally created by @mikob on GitHub (Mar 21, 2022). When I go to people, the thumbnail photos that photoprism chooses are sometimes photos I've marked as "private". Ideally I could change the photo that photoprism chooses to represent a person there, or at least photoprism wouldn't use private photos. It seems photoprism chooses the least flattering photos I have of everyone :laughing:

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2026-02-20 00:11:18 -05:00

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@lastzero commented on GitHub (Mar 22, 2022):

It's a known issue, see related source in internal/query/covers.go:

One of the reasons for this is performance. Right now, you shouldn't tag people in private images if you don't want them to be visible in subject covers. There should be a feature request for a cover selector so you can manually set an image.

@lastzero commented on GitHub (Mar 22, 2022): It's a known issue, see related source in `internal/query/covers.go`: ![known-issue](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/301686/159490263-2df8aff2-76dc-4240-99f4-8bfcb0fc4d59.png) One of the reasons for this is performance. Right now, you shouldn't tag people in private images if you don't want them to be visible in subject covers. There should be a feature request for a cover selector so you can manually set an image.

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@lastzero commented on GitHub (Mar 22, 2022):

see #383

@lastzero commented on GitHub (Mar 22, 2022): see #383

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@graciousgrey commented on GitHub (Mar 22, 2022):

For now you find instructions on how to change the subject cover within the database in the comments of https://github.com/photoprism/photoprism/issues/383 :)

@graciousgrey commented on GitHub (Mar 22, 2022): For now you find instructions on how to change the subject cover within the database in the comments of https://github.com/photoprism/photoprism/issues/383 :)