diff --git a/web/apps/photos/src/components/Search/SearchBar/searchInput/index.tsx b/web/apps/photos/src/components/Search/SearchBar/searchInput/index.tsx
index 1e62422dc..62d4a1f43 100644
--- a/web/apps/photos/src/components/Search/SearchBar/searchInput/index.tsx
+++ b/web/apps/photos/src/components/Search/SearchBar/searchInput/index.tsx
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ import { useCallback, useContext, useEffect, useRef, useState } from "react";
 import { components } from "react-select";
 import AsyncSelect from "react-select/async";
 import { InputActionMeta } from "react-select/src/types";
-import { Person } from "services/face/types";
+import type { Person } from "services/face/people";
 import { City } from "services/locationSearchService";
 import {
     getAutoCompleteSuggestions,
diff --git a/web/apps/photos/src/components/ml/PeopleList.tsx b/web/apps/photos/src/components/ml/PeopleList.tsx
index b9ceea883..12c133915 100644
--- a/web/apps/photos/src/components/ml/PeopleList.tsx
+++ b/web/apps/photos/src/components/ml/PeopleList.tsx
@@ -5,7 +5,8 @@ import { Legend } from "components/PhotoViewer/styledComponents/Legend";
 import { t } from "i18next";
 import React, { useEffect, useState } from "react";
 import mlIDbStorage from "services/face/db";
-import { Face, Person, type MlFileData } from "services/face/types";
+import type { Person } from "services/face/people";
+import type { Face, MlFileData } from "services/face/types";
 import { EnteFile } from "types/file";
 
 const FaceChipContainer = styled("div")`
diff --git a/web/apps/photos/src/services/face/db.ts b/web/apps/photos/src/services/face/db.ts
index 9be1a537b..e362b46d2 100644
--- a/web/apps/photos/src/services/face/db.ts
+++ b/web/apps/photos/src/services/face/db.ts
@@ -9,7 +9,8 @@ import {
     openDB,
 } from "idb";
 import isElectron from "is-electron";
-import { Face, MlFileData, Person } from "services/face/types";
+import type { Person } from "services/face/people";
+import type { Face, MlFileData } from "services/face/types";
 import {
     DEFAULT_ML_SEARCH_CONFIG,
     MAX_ML_SYNC_ERROR_COUNT,
diff --git a/web/apps/photos/src/services/face/f-index.ts b/web/apps/photos/src/services/face/f-index.ts
index 6224c87d3..2f806114a 100644
--- a/web/apps/photos/src/services/face/f-index.ts
+++ b/web/apps/photos/src/services/face/f-index.ts
@@ -5,11 +5,11 @@ import { workerBridge } from "@/next/worker/worker-bridge";
 import { euclidean } from "hdbscan";
 import { Matrix } from "ml-matrix";
 import { Box, Dimensions, Point, enlargeBox } from "services/face/geom";
-import {
+import type {
     Face,
     FaceAlignment,
     FaceDetection,
-    type MlFileData,
+    MlFileData,
 } from "services/face/types";
 import { defaultMLVersion } from "services/machineLearning/machineLearningService";
 import { getSimilarityTransformation } from "similarity-transformation";
diff --git a/web/apps/photos/src/services/face/people.ts b/web/apps/photos/src/services/face/people.ts
index f5a073328..ddbc15953 100644
--- a/web/apps/photos/src/services/face/people.ts
+++ b/web/apps/photos/src/services/face/people.ts
@@ -1,9 +1,13 @@
 import log from "@/next/log";
 import mlIDbStorage from "services/face/db";
-import { Person } from "services/face/types";
 import { clusterFaces } from "./cluster";
-import { saveFaceCrop } from "./f-index";
-import { fetchImageBitmap, getLocalFile } from "./file";
+
+export interface Person {
+    id: number;
+    name?: string;
+    files: Array<number>;
+    displayFaceId?: string;
+}
 
 export const syncPeopleIndex = async () => {
     // TODO-ML(MR): Forced disable clustering. It doesn't currently work,
@@ -83,11 +87,13 @@ export const syncPeopleIndex = async () => {
                 : best,
         );
 
+        /* Generate face crop
         if (personFace && !personFace.crop?.cacheKey) {
             const file = await getLocalFile(personFace.fileId);
             const imageBitmap = await fetchImageBitmap(file);
             await saveFaceCrop(imageBitmap, personFace);
         }
+        */
 
         const person: Person = {
             id: index,
diff --git a/web/apps/photos/src/services/face/transform-box.ts b/web/apps/photos/src/services/face/transform-box.ts
index b62f19548..a61bb6105 100644
--- a/web/apps/photos/src/services/face/transform-box.ts
+++ b/web/apps/photos/src/services/face/transform-box.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import { Box, Point, boxFromBoundingBox } from "services/face/geom";
-import { FaceDetection } from "services/face/types";
+import type { FaceDetection } from "services/face/types";
 // TODO-ML: Do we need two separate Matrix libraries?
 //
 // Keeping this in a separate file so that we can audit this. If these can be
diff --git a/web/apps/photos/src/services/face/types.ts b/web/apps/photos/src/services/face/types.ts
index 261fcf7fc..0a3b0119a 100644
--- a/web/apps/photos/src/services/face/types.ts
+++ b/web/apps/photos/src/services/face/types.ts
@@ -34,13 +34,6 @@ export interface Face {
     personId?: number;
 }
 
-export interface Person {
-    id: number;
-    name?: string;
-    files: Array<number>;
-    displayFaceId?: string;
-}
-
 export interface MlFileData {
     fileId: number;
     faces?: Face[];
diff --git a/web/apps/photos/src/services/machineLearning/machineLearningService.ts b/web/apps/photos/src/services/machineLearning/machineLearningService.ts
index 4fcd909e3..1f6f93048 100644
--- a/web/apps/photos/src/services/machineLearning/machineLearningService.ts
+++ b/web/apps/photos/src/services/machineLearning/machineLearningService.ts
@@ -460,6 +460,7 @@ class ServerFaceEmbeddings {
 
 class ServerFace {
     public faceID: string;
+    // TODO-ML: singular?
     public embeddings: number[];
     public detection: ServerDetection;
     public score: number;
@@ -536,7 +537,7 @@ function LocalFileMlDataToServerFileMl(
             } as Landmark);
         }
 
-        // TODO: Add client UA and version
+        // TODO-ML: Add client UA and version
         const newFaceObject = new ServerFace(
             faceID,
             Array.from(embedding),
diff --git a/web/apps/photos/src/services/searchService.ts b/web/apps/photos/src/services/searchService.ts
index d646ecd00..4bbab115c 100644
--- a/web/apps/photos/src/services/searchService.ts
+++ b/web/apps/photos/src/services/searchService.ts
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ import log from "@/next/log";
 import * as chrono from "chrono-node";
 import { t } from "i18next";
 import mlIDbStorage from "services/face/db";
-import { Person } from "services/face/types";
+import type { Person } from "services/face/people";
 import { defaultMLVersion } from "services/machineLearning/machineLearningService";
 import { Collection } from "types/collection";
 import { EntityType, LocationTag, LocationTagData } from "types/entity";
diff --git a/web/apps/photos/src/types/search/index.ts b/web/apps/photos/src/types/search/index.ts
index aa5f12804..33f5eba9a 100644
--- a/web/apps/photos/src/types/search/index.ts
+++ b/web/apps/photos/src/types/search/index.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import { FILE_TYPE } from "@/media/file-type";
 import { IndexStatus } from "services/face/db";
-import { Person } from "services/face/types";
+import type { Person } from "services/face/people";
 import { City } from "services/locationSearchService";
 import { LocationTagData } from "types/entity";
 import { EnteFile } from "types/file";