It is better to check yourself than to rely on the automatic selection of "keepers".Īnd make a full backup of your Photos Library, before you start to delete many photos from your library. You will want to be sure to keep the version with the best resolution, the version with the most metadata (location, title, description, keywords, faces, etc), the version that has been added to albums, the version that is used in a slideshow or other projects. If you use PowerPhotos to search for duplicates, as recommended by Tony, use it to find the potential duplicates, but do not let it delete the detected duplicates en masse, without checking the keepers yourself. With so many channels to receive multimedia content, sometimes we can find photographs that are repeated because we have downloaded it. If you can find out, what has been creating duplicates, you may be able to find them with a smart album, searching for the file type of the duplicates or the device, that has taken the photos. The photo gallery of our iPhone can become a complete mess.
APPLE PHOTOS FIND DUPLICATES MANUAL
not physical files) The manual tidying of duplicates can be assisted by plugins that can keyword Duplicates and so make them easier to find. You may be creating many duplicates on an iPhone by saving the same shared photo over and over again to Photos on the iPhone. So you may see more than one Preview of one image in the merged master Catalog. Can Apple Photos Delete Duplicates Find duplicates from your gallery or specific albums > click the photos to delete > and select the Trash Can.
While Photos on a Mac is checking for duplicates when importing, even when saving photos from Mail or a web browser, the iPhone is not checking for duplicates, when saving shared photos to Photos. Then you will import the downloads from iCloud repeatedly.