![]() ![]() After all, the task is beyond tedious, especially considering that iPhoto provides no remover to help. While the time it takes to sift through all of your images will vary depending on the number of photos, it may take extra effort to figure out how to put yourself to the task in the first place. To get rid of duplicates you will have to go over all photos stored on your Mac manually. Unfortunately, there are no shortcuts to detecting unwanted photos in your library. How to Remove Duplicate Photos in iPhoto Yourself 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. ![]() How is this acceptable to Apple's leadership? This feels like a monopoly situation on my most important digital assets, my family photos.Unlike years before, everyone’s a photographer now in one way or another. I have 30,000 images over a 10 year span. I confirmed this with Apple Support today (10:30am PDT - James - 17:58min hold time) and they're recommendation was to not use any 3rd party app as they will likely corrupt the Apple Photo Library.Īpple support recommends importing all photos and going through them manually. This means Apple Photo will recognize a photo as a duplicate during an import if it has the same file name even when it's a different photo. So you will invariably end up with multiple photos with camera assigned names like IMG_0001 but they are different photos (with the same name). This issue I and I'm sure many others have is that the automatic image naming that various camera's use is often the same. Submit Enhancement Request using Apple Mac OS "Photos" app feedback formĭo you or anyone else on the thread know if any of the 3rd party apps mentioned above actually look at the images visual characteristics when determining if it's a duplicate? Submit Enhancement Request using Apple IOS "Photos" app feedback form ![]() Please log a "Photos Feature Request" or "Photos Enhancement Request" using Apple "Photos" app feedback form below to help resolve this problem Please log a "Photos Feature Request" or "Photos Enhancement Request" using Apple "Photos" app feedback form below to help resolve this problemĪpple support "photos" specialist confirmed following :ġ) The new Photos app and old iphoto app had a way to search for duplicates on import this does not work once the duplicate photos are imported into library (by error or otherwise)Ģ) Apple photos has no way to search for duplicate photos, they suggested that users "manually search for duplicate photos".ģ) Apple support do not recommend third party apps to remove photos as they can damage the library.Ĥ) They acknowledged this approach is less than ideal when you have 20,000+ photos (or in my case 80,000 + photos) and suggested that all users who have concerns should log a new feature request using apple feedback form (URL below for IOS and OS Mac Photos feedback form). All, I spoke to Apple support today () and they confirmed that as of today Photos App has no way to identify or find duplicate photos in your photo library or icloud library. ![]()
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