I tried the face scanner for the first time. The default should be the first option (Detect Faces), not the second or third "experimental" options. Reproducible: Always OSX 10.11
Git commit 810971e26e81ee529e07d1fa1beff3487d2427d7 by Gilles Caulier. Committed on 29/06/2016 at 07:49. Pushed by cgilles into branch 'master'. use scan face only option by default in Face management dialog FIXED-IN: 5.0.0 M +2 -1 NEWS M +7 -3 utilities/facemanagement/facescandialog.cpp http://commits.kde.org/digikam/810971e26e81ee529e07d1fa1beff3487d2427d7