Find and name people with Personas

Personas groups photos by the people in them so you can give them names and find their photos later. It is available on every plan, including Free, and is off until you enable it for yourself in a workspace.

Steps: enable Personas

1. Select the workspace and open Personas in the Files sidebar.
2. Select Start reading on this device.
3. If prompted, set up your Vault passphrase or unlock with your existing passphrase. Keep your recovery code somewhere safe. Learn about Vault.
4. Leave dosya open while your device reads the photos. The progress card shows Read … photos on this device.

The result belongs to you. Enabling Personas does not enable it for other workspace members or share your names and groups with them.

Use Pause and Resume on the progress card to control reading on this device. If the page says This browser can’t read photos. Your other devices can., use another supported device to read them. This browser can still display the people supplied by your other devices.

Personas reads still images you can access. It leaves out videos, Vault files, hidden or password-locked photos, locked folders, the trash and any folders you choose to skip.

Name and find a person

1. Open a person in Personas.
2. Select Add a name beside the unnamed person.
3. Enter a name of 1 to 60 characters, then select Save or press Enter. Use a name that is not already assigned to another person.
4. Use the search field at the top of the app, or press Command+K on Mac or Ctrl+K on Windows. Type the beginning of the name, then choose the person under People. Learn about search.

To rename someone, use the pencil beside their name. Your names and corrections are shared with your own signed-in devices through the encrypted people index.

Correct a group

If a photo contains the wrong person, open its Photo options menu and choose Not this person or Not {name}. This corrects the grouping without deleting the photo.

If two groups represent the same person, open one and select Merge with…. Choose the matching person and review the name and cover described in the merge dialog.

Select Change cover to choose the photo used for the person, or use Set as cover in a photo’s menu.

Remove a person or delete your index

To remove one person, open their page, select Remove person, then confirm Remove person. Their face data and name are removed from your index. Their photos remain. The index remembers the removed faces so reading the same photos again does not immediately bring the person back.

For workspace controls, select Personas settings:

• Read on this device pauses or resumes reading here.
• Skipped folders → Add folder leaves that folder’s photos out of Personas.
• Turning off Personas in this workspace, or selecting Delete my people in this workspace, opens a confirmation. Turn off and delete removes your people, names and corrections for this workspace.

Deletion reaches your other devices when they next sync. Turning Personas off does not delete the photos.

Face data and privacy

Faces are read on your device. Face recognition does not run on dosya’s servers. Your people index is encrypted before it leaves the device, and dosya cannot read the faces, groups or names it stores for synchronization.

Your Vault passphrase or recovery code opens the key for that index. If you lose both, dosya cannot recover the names and groups. Your devices can read the photos again to create a new index.

Read the Biometric Data Policy for the full explanation of face data, access, deletion and responsibilities when photos show other people. Deleted encrypted data may remain in recovery backups for up to 30 days under that policy.

Expected result

After your device reads eligible photos, Personas shows groups you can name and correct. Your own devices can sync the encrypted index without sharing those names with other workspace members.

Related guides

• Searching for files in the correct workspace
• Understand Dosya Vault
• Find files with Smart Search