Face recognition (FR) is one of the most significant types of research that are widely used in various areas, such as finance, preventing crime, protecting the border, and for military purposes. Face recognition is a biometric identification technology based on human facial feature information. There are two main approaches first one is hand-crafted (HC) features which is the traditional method (geometry-based, holistic, feature based, and hybrid methods), and the recent one is based on deep learning (DL). The major purpose of this work to provide UpToDate literature review for face recognition (FR) Techniques. Furthermore, it summarizes the benchmark datasets and the most successful methods used on these datasets for face recognition.