iOS 16 Photos - Duplicates not showing

[nickster777]

I have installed io16 on my iPhone 13 Pro with 90,000 photos. I have been looking forward to the "duplicates" function in Photos - but it is not showing up for me under Utilities. I installed iOS 16 several hours ago. What am I doing wrong?

 

[theanimala]

90,000 photos? I’m sure your phone is still indexing, wait a day and I bet it’s there.

 

[nickster777]

Well, it is almost a day and still nothing. Also checked with a friend and it isn't showing for them either. Please could somebody confirm that they are seeing this feature??? Thanks

 

[unknownx]

Duplicate button only shows up if you actually have duplicates.

If you dont have any, the duplicate-button will not be shown

 

[nickster777]

Thanks for the replies. I have literally thousands of duplicates which is why I have been so looking forward to this new feature. Is it working for others?

 

[robvalentine]

It takes a while to index/process. mine just appeared after 20 hours or so (had 4k dupes 14k photos now)

 

[noSpeed]

I’m still waiting as well. I left it on almost a full battery overnight (which I hardly ever do), and no duplicates detected so far.

 

[reflekshunmusic]

Wait a week, if it's not there in a week then contact support but I wouldn't worry under a week! Timing depends on your activity and probably a bunch of other stuff we don't know.

 

[antiprotest]

I have 35,000+ photos. In under 12 hours (I am not sure when it happened), the iPhone discovered 1600+ duplicates. I sorted through them carefully and experimented with the "merge" action. It's very reliable and indeed leaves one good copy for each set. I am convinced by it so in the future I can do a mass merge with duplicates.

 

[noSpeed]

I’m still waiting as well. I left it on almost a full battery overnight (which I hardly ever do), and no duplicates detected so far.

Mine eventually found the duplicates after just over 24hrs.

 

[LennyFL]

Just upgraded to IOS 16 at today at 21:00. I have 11,850 photos. No duplicate folder so I'll wait a few days as suggested to see what happens.

 

[djhradio]

Can someone please answer this question: I noticed similar photos disappearing from my phone, some of them years old. HOW DO YOU TURN IT OFF? I understand why some people want to clean up space, but (once again, Apple) has decided to make a choice for me I'd rather make myself. I'm losing similar (not duplicate) photos of late relatives and even a celebrity or two I met and had 3 photos with them, now just one. I get why a lot of people here like it, but why do tech companies always presume what we want? /rant - Thanks in advance

 

[noSpeed]

Can someone please answer this question: I noticed similar photos disappearing from my phone, some of them years old. HOW DO YOU TURN IT OFF? I understand why some people want to clean up space, but (once again, Apple) has decided to make a choice for me I'd rather make myself. I'm losing similar (not duplicate) photos of late relatives and even a celebrity or two I met and had 3 photos with them, now just one. I get why a lot of people here like it, but why do tech companies always presume what we want? /rant - Thanks in advance

Not sure what’s happening here. It doesn’t happen automatically. You have to manually merge the duplicates.