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iOS 16 Makes it Easier to Delete Duplicate Photos Clogging Up Your Library
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Is this feature available on Photos on the MacOS?
That is where my photos are stored. Too many to be in ‘the cloud’.
That is where my photos are stored. Too many to be in ‘the cloud’.
Not available on my iPhone 13 Pro with iOS 16. Do I need to enable it anywhere?
Edit: Seems I have to give the device time to process. It found some 500+ duplicates on my 15k photos. I wonder how this would behave on my wife's 100k+ photo roll...
Edit: Seems I have to give the device time to process. It found some 500+ duplicates on my 15k photos. I wonder how this would behave on my wife's 100k+ photo roll...
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I'm confused. Photos has been attempting to detect and delete duplicates for years. My M1 Mac mini still reports that it is working on the same duplicate detection project that it started in Dec of 2020. I'll believe this works when I finally see it work.
Looking forward to using this but, we need:
1. This for the Mac
2. This for files, not just photos
3. This to assess whether a pic has been copied to shared albums and point out those as duplicates.
1. This for the Mac
2. This for files, not just photos
3. This to assess whether a pic has been copied to shared albums and point out those as duplicates.
Just trying to make sure I understand the difference between merging and deleting relating to this feature.
Delete: The feature finds two photos that are the same. Selecting both and deleting them deletes both pictures from your Photo Library leaving NO copy of that photo behind. It would be as if that photo never existed.
Merge: The feature finds two photos that are the same. Selecting both and merging them deletes one and leaves one single copy of that photo in your Photo Library.
Am I understanding that correctly? So, 9/10 times people will likely want to MERGE vs delete. The only time you'd want to delete is if you didn't want ANY copy of that photo anymore?
Delete: The feature finds two photos that are the same. Selecting both and deleting them deletes both pictures from your Photo Library leaving NO copy of that photo behind. It would be as if that photo never existed.
Merge: The feature finds two photos that are the same. Selecting both and merging them deletes one and leaves one single copy of that photo in your Photo Library.
Am I understanding that correctly? So, 9/10 times people will likely want to MERGE vs delete. The only time you'd want to delete is if you didn't want ANY copy of that photo anymore?
I see a marriage crisis rolling on, if I sneakingly press „remove duplicates“ on my wife’s machine
Interested in this as well. I often take screenshots of images, then crop and alter in order to not affect the original. Would be great to get those cleaned up.
Since you are on a M1, you must be using Monterey. I am on an Intel and using Big Sur. Photos in Big Sur does not have this feature. I wish it did. I have almost 70,000 photos including scans of my father's slides. I am sure that I have repeats.
Another reason for me to update to Monterey, assuming it does not take it 2 years to complete the scan and take up my CPU doing so.
It's not like it's hard to understand. Photos.app doesn't do anything to stop you from adding 100 copies of the same photo to the library.
It'll be interesting to see what Apple thinks "duplicate" means. Obviously if you add two photos that have the same binary content, it should flag them, but if they're the same photo optically, but two different JPG's, should they get flagged?
It's irrelevant to me since I would never allow the phone to be authoritative in the first place, but it will be amusing to watch.
iOS 16 is Sherlocking Pill reminder apps, Password Managers, Weather apps and Duplicate Picture apps. So, about 30% of the App Store.
It’s good but it not perfect. I still have to manually delete each duplicate. I usually delete the oldest duplicate.
Or the smallest sized duplicate.
But there are a bunch that aren’t actually duplicates.
And as of now, there no way to mark them as “not duplicates”.
Or the smallest sized duplicate.
But there are a bunch that aren’t actually duplicates.
And as of now, there no way to mark them as “not duplicates”.
Presumably this is why you have to manually delete them
That would be my preference actually - for Apple to find not just duplicates based on identical information, but to show photos that look the same or very similar, and let me choose the one(s) I'd like to keep and discard the rest
I’d recommend using the ‘duplicate’ feature for this instead as a screenshot of an original photo will be of much lower quality/resolution. That is if you care about that sort of thing…
Didn’t even know there was a duplicate feature! Thank you!