This way I can’t transfer the same photos twice. This is where duplicate photos can enter our computer.Īfter transferring photos from your phone to your computer, I always empty my phone photo storage. Next step in order to eliminate duplicate photos is to address the process for transferring photos from our camera (or phone) to our computer. Delete Your Digital Photos After Each Transfer

If you choose Auto Reset, then your file numbering will start with 1 every time you put in a memory card in your camera.Ģ. This is the first good measure to guard against duplicate files. This means that you get 10,000 pictures (yeah it’s actually 9999) with unique image numbers. The Continuous file naming scheme will continually number your images from 0001 to 9999 and then reset back to 0001. The most common two schemes are Continuous and Auto Reset. Modern standalone digital cameras (those devices that are only cameras…not your phone) have different file naming schemes available. Fortunately however, most modern phones have the continuous file naming scheme already in use, so you can pretty much skip this step if your phone is the only camera you use. Unfortunately for your phone, there is nothing you can do as the file numbering scheme is already set for your phone. ‌iOS 16‌, iPadOS 16, ‌macOS Ventura‌, and watchOS 9 will all be made publicly available this fall.In order to eliminate duplicate photos we have to start at the source, with your camera. ‌iOS 16‌ is currently only available to developers with a public beta planned for July. Since the feature requires your device to scan and sort out your entire library, it may take some time before your device starts offering up duplicates to delete. Using on-device machine learning on ‌iOS 16‌ and macOS Ventura, your device will now easily detect and aggregate all duplicate photos in your library under the Utilities section in Photos.įrom there, you'll easily be able to delete them, freeing up space on your device and decluttering your photo library.

Thankfully, with iOS 16, Apple is making it significantly easier to delete any duplicates taking up useless space on your device.Īpple is calling the new feature 'Duplicate detection' and it works as expected. If you use your iPhone to take and save a lot of pictures, more likely than not you have a few duplicate photos unnecessarily clogging up your photo library.

Getting rid of duplicate photos