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I've just noticed that Windows 10 has created automatic collections of some of my photos. This question covered it creating albums (maybe just a semantic difference?) based on date/time which is somewhat understandable.

But one collection is called "Happy days" with a subtitle "#smile" - presumably based on facial analysis. Another photo containing someone wearing some protective equipment on their face was tagged "Scuba diving" - a plausible error in AI recognition.

Is it uploading all my photos to Microsoft to do this? I can't see any reference to this online, with the exception of OneDrive folders, which this is not!

How can I disable it?

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  • Are you automatically uploading photos to OneDrive? Oct 18, 2017 at 18:14
  • Not to my knowledge. I've never used OneDrive elsewhere, and starting the OneDrive app on this machine asks me to sign in and setup OneDrive.
    – Oli
    Oct 18, 2017 at 18:16

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The AI engine for this appears to run locally on your device, and store the additional metadata in a file that you can find at %USERPROFILE\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.Windows.Photos_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalState\MediaDb.v1.sqlite (which is why the tags will sometimes differ if you are synchronising photos via OneDrive).

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