diff --git a/desktop/CHANGELOG.md b/desktop/CHANGELOG.md
index 27ed96ab16..0f4b211411 100644
--- a/desktop/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/desktop/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 ## v1.7.5 (Unreleased)
 
+-   Face grouping (beta).
 -   Directly upload to selected album on drag and drop.
 -   Include shared files in export.
 -   .
diff --git a/web/packages/new/photos/services/ml/cluster.ts b/web/packages/new/photos/services/ml/cluster.ts
index c0d81173b9..50c53bcc8e 100644
--- a/web/packages/new/photos/services/ml/cluster.ts
+++ b/web/packages/new/photos/services/ml/cluster.ts
@@ -301,10 +301,6 @@ const clusterBatchLinear = async (
             if (csim > nnCosineSimilarity && csim >= threshold) {
                 nnIndex = j;
                 nnCosineSimilarity = csim;
-
-                // If we've find something above our early exit threshold, stop
-                // looking for a better match (A way to speed up clustering).
-                if (csim >= 0.9) break;
             }
         }
 
diff --git a/web/packages/new/photos/services/ml/index.ts b/web/packages/new/photos/services/ml/index.ts
index aeecff8f47..0c841e643d 100644
--- a/web/packages/new/photos/services/ml/index.ts
+++ b/web/packages/new/photos/services/ml/index.ts
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@ import type { EnteFile } from "@/new/photos/types/file";
 import { ensure } from "@/utils/ensure";
 import { throttled } from "@/utils/promise";
 import { proxy, transfer } from "comlink";
-import { isInternalUser } from "../feature-flags";
 import { getRemoteFlag, updateRemoteFlag } from "../remote-store";
 import { setSearchPeople } from "../search";
 import type { UploadItem } from "../upload/types";
@@ -342,8 +341,6 @@ export const mlSync = async () => {
 const workerDidUnawaitedIndex = () => void updateClustersAndPeople();
 
 const updateClustersAndPeople = async () => {
-    if (!(await isInternalUser())) return;
-
     const masterKey = await masterKeyFromSession();
 
     // Fetch existing cgroups from remote.
diff --git a/web/packages/new/photos/services/ml/people.ts b/web/packages/new/photos/services/ml/people.ts
index 79e9152b86..dbf67ec3d9 100644
--- a/web/packages/new/photos/services/ml/people.ts
+++ b/web/packages/new/photos/services/ml/people.ts
@@ -174,6 +174,10 @@ export const reconstructPeople = async (): Promise<Person[]> => {
         // in the UI.
         if (isHidden) return undefined;
 
+        // Older versions of the mobile app marked hidden cgroups by setting
+        // their name to an empty string.
+        if (!name) return undefined;
+
         // Person faces from all the clusters assigned to this cgroup, sorted by
         // their score.
         const faces = assigned