diff --git a/mobile/lib/face/model/person.dart b/mobile/lib/face/model/person.dart
index ee1cb724b..e93bebe4e 100644
--- a/mobile/lib/face/model/person.dart
+++ b/mobile/lib/face/model/person.dart
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 // PersonEntity represents information about a Person in the context of FaceClustering that is stored.
 // On the remote server, the PersonEntity is stored as {Entity} with type person.
 // On the device, this information is stored as [LocalEntityData] with type person.
+import "package:flutter/foundation.dart";
+
 class PersonEntity {
   final String remoteID;
   final PersonData data;
@@ -80,6 +82,25 @@ class PersonData {
     );
   }
 
+  void logStats() {
+    if (kDebugMode == false) return;
+    // log number of assigned and rejected clusters and total number of faces in each cluster
+    final StringBuffer sb = StringBuffer();
+    sb.writeln('Person: $name');
+    int assignedCount = 0;
+    for (final a in (assigned ?? <ClusterInfo>[])) {
+      assignedCount += a.faces.length;
+    }
+    sb.writeln('Assigned: ${assigned?.length} withFaces $assignedCount');
+    sb.writeln('Rejected: ${rejected?.length}');
+    if (assigned != null) {
+      for (var cluster in assigned!) {
+        sb.writeln('Cluster: ${cluster.id} - ${cluster.faces.length}');
+      }
+    }
+    debugPrint(sb.toString());
+  }
+
   // toJson
   Map<String, dynamic> toJson() => {
         'name': name,
diff --git a/mobile/lib/services/machine_learning/face_ml/person/person_service.dart b/mobile/lib/services/machine_learning/face_ml/person/person_service.dart
index 4d78101f0..774267de1 100644
--- a/mobile/lib/services/machine_learning/face_ml/person/person_service.dart
+++ b/mobile/lib/services/machine_learning/face_ml/person/person_service.dart
@@ -111,6 +111,7 @@ class PersonService {
       personID: personID,
       clusterID: clusterID,
     );
+    personData.logStats();
   }
 
   Future<void> removeClusterToPerson({
@@ -129,6 +130,7 @@ class PersonService {
       personID: personID,
       clusterID: clusterID,
     );
+    personData.logStats();
   }
 
   Future<void> deletePerson(String personID, {bool onlyMapping = true}) async {
@@ -145,6 +147,7 @@ class PersonService {
         id: personID,
       );
       await faceMLDataDB.removePerson(personID);
+      justName.data.logStats();
     } else {
       await entityService.deleteEntry(personID);
       await faceMLDataDB.removePerson(personID);
@@ -173,10 +176,9 @@ class PersonService {
         }
         clusterToPersonID[cluster.id] = e.id;
       }
-      if(kDebugMode) {
+      if (kDebugMode) {
         logger.info(
-          "Person ${e.id} ${personData.name} has ${personData.assigned!
-              .length} clusters with $faceCount faces",
+          "Person ${e.id} ${personData.name} has ${personData.assigned!.length} clusters with $faceCount faces",
         );
       }
     }
@@ -186,11 +188,33 @@ class PersonService {
     await faceMLDataDB.bulkAssignClusterToPersonID(clusterToPersonID);
   }
 
-  Future<void> updatePerson(PersonEntity updatePerson) async {
+  Future<void> updateAttributes(
+    String id, {
+    String? name,
+    String? avatarFaceId,
+    bool? isHidden,
+    int? version,
+    String? birthDate,
+  }) async {
+    final person = (await getPerson(id))!;
+    final updatedPerson = person.copyWith(
+      data: person.data.copyWith(
+        name: name,
+        avatarFaceId: avatarFaceId,
+        isHidden: isHidden,
+        version: version,
+        birthDate: birthDate,
+      ),
+    );
+    await _updatePerson(updatedPerson);
+  }
+
+  Future<void> _updatePerson(PersonEntity updatePerson) async {
     await entityService.addOrUpdate(
       EntityType.person,
       json.encode(updatePerson.data.toJson()),
       id: updatePerson.remoteID,
     );
+    updatePerson.data.logStats();
   }
 }
diff --git a/mobile/lib/ui/viewer/actions/file_selection_actions_widget.dart b/mobile/lib/ui/viewer/actions/file_selection_actions_widget.dart
index eb3b44f29..bb5e77818 100644
--- a/mobile/lib/ui/viewer/actions/file_selection_actions_widget.dart
+++ b/mobile/lib/ui/viewer/actions/file_selection_actions_widget.dart
@@ -653,11 +653,10 @@ class _FileSelectionActionsWidgetState
 
   Future<void> _setPersonCover() async {
     final EnteFile file = widget.selectedFiles.files.first;
-    final PersonEntity newPerson = widget.person!.copyWith(
-      data: widget.person!.data
-          .copyWith(avatarFaceId: file.uploadedFileID.toString()),
+    await PersonService.instance.updateAttributes(
+      widget.person!.remoteID,
+      avatarFaceId: file.uploadedFileID.toString(),
     );
-    await PersonService.instance.updatePerson(newPerson);
     widget.selectedFiles.clearAll();
     if (mounted) {
       setState(() => {});
diff --git a/mobile/lib/ui/viewer/people/people_app_bar.dart b/mobile/lib/ui/viewer/people/people_app_bar.dart
index 14741b5e2..6dfcd77fd 100644
--- a/mobile/lib/ui/viewer/people/people_app_bar.dart
+++ b/mobile/lib/ui/viewer/people/people_app_bar.dart
@@ -110,9 +110,8 @@ class _AppBarWidgetState extends State<PeopleAppBar> {
         }
 
         try {
-          final updatePerson = widget.person
-              .copyWith(data: widget.person.data.copyWith(name: text));
-          await PersonService.instance.updatePerson(updatePerson);
+          await PersonService.instance
+              .updateAttributes(widget.person.remoteID, name: text);
           if (mounted) {
             _appBarTitle = text;
             setState(() {});