This means, that there are either of the 2 main routes to take - the tedious manual handpicking of similar or identical pics, or heading down the third-party apps lane that enables automated cleanup. The closest you get is an occasional reminder to prevent you from importing an identical copy to your library. Neither Apple’s newly updated Photos app, nor its predecessor iPhoto, have the functionality that allows for a automated cleanup of identical files. To address the elephant in the room right away, there is no easy way of dealing with picture duplicates on your own. Want to claim that free space back? Let’s see what options do you have. Before you know it, with the iCloud sync on, your Photos library is full of duplicates that eat up precious storage space. In addition, there is next to no cost of taking and storing pics, which leads to multiple shots of pretty much the same scenery, setting or person with very little difference. With cameras getting smaller, smarter, and snappier, photography became accessible to the masses. It has been updated and republished to reflect the changes in iOS 16.4.Unlike years before, everyone’s a photographer now in one way or another. Note: We originally published this post on January 25, 2023.
With duplicate detection, I’m confident that our new unified library doesn’t contain 12 copies of that one picture of our dog we both like, or two full sets of all our wedding photos taking up space. My wife and I turned on our shared library, but of course, both of our personal libraries were littered with the same pictures we sent to each other in the years before this feature.
The ability to delete duplicate photos was necessary for Apple to properly implement iCloud Shared Photo Library (a feature I fully recommend looking into for families and close friends). Plus, it needs to figure out if you’ve made edits to a copy of a photo, and determine which one you might want to keep. Duplicate detection can’t just compare superficial data like file size or resolution - it needs to check if you have both a full-quality and a lower-quality copy of the same image.
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